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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst,
Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, Mitch Allen,
Patrick Swan, A. Landreau,Kurt Theis, Wendy van Duivenvoorde,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell,
Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this
week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Interesting info from Oetzi's genome (interesting how different media
sources
stress different aspects of the same study):

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-genetic-analysis-reveals-otzi-iceman.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/29/iceman_genome/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17191398
http://news.yahoo.com/dna-data-helps-flesh-otzi-alpine-iceman-161516817.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/iceman-mummy-lyme-disease-120228.html

A hominin-human timeline sort of thing:

http://thevarsity.ca/2012/02/27/hominins-to-humans/

On the origins of blue eyes (not sure where to put this one):

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/02/do-blue-eyes-ste\
m-from-a-black-sea-resident-8000-years-ago/

Neanderthals were apparently using boats long before modern humans:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-evidence-neanderthals-boats-modern-humans.ht\
ml
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2108651/Neanderthals-beat-modern-\
humans-seas-50-000-years-say-scientists.html
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/231282/neanderthals-used-boats-much-modern.h\
tml
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328544.800

More on Neanderthals being on the verge of extinction before
humans arrived:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17179608
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-european-neanderthals-verge-extinction-moder\
n.html
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=224326
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AFRICA
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More on Nubian skeletons:

http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2012/02/nubian_skeletons_reveal_secre\
ts_of_ancient_times
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Garbage dumping and archaeological looting at Abu Sir:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/node/681041

The Patio Tomb coverage:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-tomb-exploration-reveals-archaeological-evid\
ence.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/uonc-ter022712.php
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/28/10534008-doubts-about-the-jesus-\
discovery
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/naked-archaeologist-finds-signs-jerusa\
lem-cave-was-used-to-bury-jesus-disciples-1.415231
http://www.heraldextra.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/finding-a-new-image-profe\
ssor-s-discovery-resurrects-debate-over/article_ee21c51e-63f7-11e1-bfce-0019bb29\
63f4.html
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/28/10521007-new-find-revives-jesus-\
tomb-flap
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/28/tomb-jonah-discovered-finder-lost-tomb\
-jesus-claims/
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2012/02/archeologists-p\
eer-into-jesus-tomb-ossuary/1
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/9111834/Christs-disc\
iples-remains-discovered.html
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/investigators-may-discovered-earliest-evide\
nce-christian-iconography-jerusalem-231736336.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2107591/Will-discovery-ancient-co\
ffin-lead-resting-place-Jesus.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-tomb-exploration-reveals-archaeological-evid\
ence.html

... folks genuinely interested in this should read the various discussions
at the ASOR blog (there are
quite a few reactions in the blogosphere in general):

http://asorblog.org/

... if you want a classicist's perspective (i.e. mine):

http://rogueclassicism.com/2012/02/29/the-patio-tomb-evidence-of-early-christian\
ity-i-hae-me-doots-a-classics-perspective/

James Tabor's article on same is up at Bible and Interpretation:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/tab368028.shtml

cf the original (especially the 'fish'):

http://www.bobcargill.com/Docs/Tabor2_ORIGINAL_VERSION.pdf


... but we should note that recently some of the photos have been
changed (hmmm):

Recent finds from Tel Megiddo:

https://sites.google.com/site/megiddoexpedition/additional-information/area_h_ho\
ard

A Phoenician fortress from Cyprus:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Arts/Jun/24/Remains-of-Phoenician-fortress-u\
ncovered-in-Cyprus.ashx


Finds from Horbat Midras:

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00200.html


Gospel of Mark fragments:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnfarrell/2012/02/27/fragments-of-marks-gospel-may\
-date-to-1st-century/
http://global.christianpost.com/news/bible-scholars-skeptical-of-1st-century-gos\
pel-fragment-discovery-70231/

Feature on that mummy of Nehemes-Bastet:

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/Mummy_discovery_reveals_ancient_secrets_.htm\
l?cid=32194158

Latest on Temple Mount:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/153152

More on the solar boat:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1086/eg72.htm
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/35047/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Japane\
seEgyptian-team-starts-restoring-King-Khufus.aspx

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Plenty of coverage of Greek reburial of sites due to lack of funds:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/03/02/greek-antiquities-reburied-for-lack-o\
f-funds/
http://www.france24.com/en/20120302-greek-antiquities-reburied-lack-funds
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gy3GQeW3LPeIZEzU1rebXmnrRByg?\
docId=CNG.fe1245d46ab71882e956e375ece52394.561
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Greek+antiquities+reburied+lack+funds+report/624\
0554/story.html

Water works near Kirkton have revealed assorted Roman remains:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-17237825

A very nice gilt bronze Greek helmet from Haifa Bay:

http://world.greekreporter.com/2012/03/02/mysterious-ancient-greek-bronze-helmet\
-found-in-haifa-bay/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46574945/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-greek-helmet-120229.html
http://news.yahoo.com/found-ancient-warriors-helmet-owner-unknown-141401836.html
http://www.livescience.com/18700-ancient-helmet-greek-warrior.html

Feature on Alepotrypa Cave:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/story/2012-02-25/Alepotry\
pa-Cave-Hades/53237894/1

Traces of paint on the Medici Venus:

http://news.discovery.com/history/medici-venus-120203.html

That 'Julius Caesar' bust found at Arles is going on display at the Louvre:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/whatson/event/Arles:-the-Excavations-in-Rhone/112\
2243

Baylor's Latin Day:

http://baylorlariat.com/2012/03/02/roman-resurrection-classics-become-cool/

Latin is 'lingering' in Rochester:

http://www.campustimes.org/2012/03/01/latin-lingers-on/

Nice feature on chariot racing:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/03/blue-versus-green-rocking-the-by\
zantine-empire/

The Classics Confidential people were chatting with Edith Hall:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_q7hClO1-A&feature=uploademail

There was an Ovid Marathon reading at St Olaf:

http://www.stolaf.edu/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=NewsDetails&id=5253

What Donald McGuire is up to:

http://www.ubspectrum.com/life/mcguire-scoots-to-recovery-1.2797172#.T1NlOHnN2uI

Feature about Heron of Alexandria:

http://jalopnik.com/5888188/the-greeks-had-the-technology-to-build-a-car-in-60-a\
d

Interesting Julius Caesar page:

http://www.biography.com/people/julius-caesar-9192504

Roman advice for political candidates (semi-reviewish?):

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2012/03/ancient_roman_advice_for_the_20\
12_candidates_.html

Review(ish) of the Swerve:

http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/02/27/loss-and-recovery-stephen-greenblatt%E2%80%\
99s-%E2%80%9Cthe-swerve%E2%80%9D/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/02/26/f-vp-handler-swerve.html

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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The refurbishment of Roch Castle is complete:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-17238208

... as is Kinver Rock House:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-17208140

The public is helping to dig at Flag Fen:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17211285

A Charles II 'wanted' poster fetched an okay price at auction:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-17244677

Thomas Hobbes appears to have had a cunning plan in regards
to the English Civil War:

http://www.livescience.com/18648-thomas-hobbes-letter-england-civil-war.html

There's a new railway archive online in the UK:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/feb/28/railway-archive-engineering-giants

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Feature on those Jewish manuscripts found in Afghanistan (not sure if
there's
anything new here):

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/92443/war-papers/

Arguing over a Khmer statue saved from auction in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/arts/design/sothebys-caught-in-dispute-over-pr\
ized-cambodian-statue.html

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Solutrean discovery of America (definitely have to watch this one):

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-european-style-stone-tools-age.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-evidence-suggests-stone-age\
-hunters-from-europe-discovered-america-7447152.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9110838/Stone-age-Europe\
ans-were-the-first-to-set-foot-on-North-America.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/radical-theory-of-first-am\
ericans-places-stone-age-europeans-in-delmarva-20000-years-ago/2012/02/28/gIQA4m\
riiR_print.html

Very semi-related ... fwiw and mixed in with some Elmer material:

http://borderzine.com/2012/03/did-europeans-settle-in-the-arizona-desert-thousan\
ds-of-years-before-columbus-sailed-to-america/

Feature on Jefferson's slaves at Poplar Forest:

http://www2.newsadvance.com/news/2012/feb/26/slavery-research-poplar-forest-show\
s-contradiction-ar-1713406/

On ancient American pilgrimage centres:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2012/03/04/study-pilgrimage-a-co\
stly-signal.html
http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2012/03/ancient-american-pilgrimage-communi\
tas.html

The site of the Battle of Medina may have been found:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Battle-of-Medina-site-found-\
geologist-says-3374995.php

Humans in Ohio were scavenging/hunting earlier that previously thought:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-reveals-evidence-prehistoric-ohioans.html
http://news.yahoo.com/research-reveals-first-evidence-hunting-prehistoric-ohioan\
s-162015355.html

Haven't had a facial reconstruction in a while ... this time, its sailors
from the Monitor:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/faces-of-civil-war-sailors-from-sunken-us\
s-monitor-reconstructed-in-hopes-of-identifying-them/2012/03/03/gIQAAldxoR_story\
.html

What Whitney Battle-Baptiste is up to:

http://www.truth-out.org/archaeologist-author-black-feminist-unearths-contributi\
ons-african-diaspora-everyday-people/13304412
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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The tomb of Atahualpa has possibly been found:

http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Clue-to-Inca-emperor-tomb-found-20120229
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/ecuador/9112505/Ecuador-l\
ocates-final-resting-place-of-last-Inca-emperors-tomb.html

Women were important in pre-colonial Maya society:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-women-central-pre-colonial-maya-society.html
http://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/3632

A 16th century shipwreck off Brazil:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2012/03/01/sixteenth-century-shipwrec\
k-discovered-by-brazil-team/

Interesting photo from Chichen Itza which, of course, is being given all
sorts of spins:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/02/mayan-light-beam-photo-message-from-go\
ds-or-iphone-glitch/

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Audio news from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews26feb12.mp3

The Herschel family papers are now available for research purposes:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-newly-science-materials.html

Some Spain v Odyssey marine aftermath:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/international/sunken_treasure_washed_up_in_spain_1_\
2141830
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/9108879/Spain-rejects-Per\
uvian-claim-to-shipwreck-treasure.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/spain-rejects-peruvian-claim-to-shipw\
reck-treasure/2012/02/27/gIQAFFcfdR_story.html

and:

http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=24195

Video report on the Vatican's 'other' Secret Archives:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_VJOqjL0pU&feature=uploademail

On climate change as seen through Arabic manuscripts:

http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=7wc8369beu2zmtjdtss7&u=18736418&f=h
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-ancient-arabic-scientists-piece-climate.html
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/27/ancient-iraqi-meteorologists-speak-to-the-\
present-on-climate/
http://in.news.yahoo.com/ancient-arabic-writings-help-scientists-reconstruct-pas\
t-climate-060306808.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120226225956.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/w-aaw022312.php

An interesting application of 3d printing technology:

http://mashable.com/2012/02/24/smithsonian-uses-3d-printing/

Foot bones can be used to identify the sex of skeletons:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-foot-bones-sex-skeletal.html

Some coverage of the American Digger thing:

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/03/archaeologists-protest-glamori\
zan.html

One of the nuttiest claims I've seen in ages:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/northland/dargaville-districts/649794\
3/Greeks-got-here-first

... and coming a close second are claims that that Bible in Turkey we
mentioned last week includes mention
that Jesus foretold the coming of Mohammed:

http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/jesus-foresaw-prophet-mohammads-arrival-hid\
den-ancient-bible-414563
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2105714/Secret-14million-Bible-Jesus-pre\
dicts-coming-Prophet-Muhammad-unearthed-Turkey.html

... and stories of Victoria's 'secret daughter' is probably in the same
category:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2106204/Victorias-secret-According-tan\
talising-new-evidence-Queen-Victoria-married-Scottish-groom-bore-secret-daughter\
-spirited-America.html

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Assorted 'guided walks':

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2012/feb/27/readers-travel-tips-guided-walks
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Thieves stole St Laurence O'Toole's heart from Dublin's
Christ Church Cathedral:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17248394
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Saint-s-ancient-heart-stolen-from-Dublin-\
cathedral-3380594.php

Another antiquities bust in Thessaloniki:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17248637
http://www.nbc29.com/story/17071944/35-arrested-in-greece-with-stolen-antiquitie\
s
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n272372
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/03/03/4308655/35-arrested-in-greece-with-stolen.html

A pair of British tourists were arrested on suspicion of smuggling artifacts
from Egypt, but it turned to they were imitations:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9110760/British-tourists-arrested-f\
or-smuggling-artefacts-out-of-Egypt.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/british-couple-released-as-pricel\
ess-artifacts-they-were-smuggling-out-of-egypt-turn-out-to-be-cheap-market-fakes\
-7447085.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120226/ml-egypt-antiquities/
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ioxhVKqn60e1M6AsvY9cDTzBPwDQ?\
docId=CNG.f93648e502555ea3e976efe113d96c98.9c1

On the scope of antiquities theft in Israel:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-of-antiquity-thefts-per-year-in-israel/

More on those thieves who were using the Copper Scroll as a treasure map:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_ido.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1901\
&module_id=#as
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-antiquities-officials-apprehend-thieves-in-\
ancient-cave/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
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Today's issue of the e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n10.htmlA

Some Syracusan dekadrachms are coming to auction:

http://www.coinweek.com/news/auctions-news/morton-eden-announce-sale-of-four-ico\
nic-greek-coins-dating-from-the-5th-century-bc/

... as is the Shoshana collection of ancient Judean coins:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=53917
http://coins.ha.com/common/auction/catalog.php?SaleNo=3003&ic=leftcol-shoshana-a\
lthome4-021412
http://www.ha.com/c/press-release.zx?releaseId=2166

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Lux in Arcana:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54002
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/9111168/V\
atican-Secret-Archives-reveal-abdication-letter-of-hermaphrodite-Swedish-queen.h\
tml
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWn1otXr_Ks&feature=uploademail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIg9ydN87Zo&feature=uploademail

Aphrodite and the Gods of Love:

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/arts/news/article_1693392.php/Aphrodite-and-th\
e-Gods-of-Love-open-March-28-at-The-Getty-Villa

A Day in Pompeii:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-pompeian-life-vesuvius-wrath.html

Becoming the Volunteer State:

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/26d64f853a7e431a96cc6369644c7a74/TN--Museu\
m-War-of-1812/

Genghis Khan:

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120226/entlife/702269993/

Titian's Diana and Callisto will remain in the UK:

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/British-galleries-buy-Renaissance-masterpi\
ece-3373131.php

The Andhra Pradesh Archeological Museum is set to reopen:

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/ap-archaeological-museum-to-reopen-soon/233975-62-131\
.html


Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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More on Otzi's genetics:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/the-tyrolean-iceman-cometh/article2360\
955/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/science/iceman-had-brown-eyes-and-hair-and-was\
-lactose-intolerant.html
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AFRICA
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Interesting feature about a slave burial ground on St Helena:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-archaeologists-unearth-slave-burial-ground.h\
tml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/08/slave-mass-graves-st-helena-island
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2012/slave-burial-ground-exc\
avated-on-st-helena
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Archaeologists have discovered the name of a previously-unknown
17th dynasty pharaoh:

http://news.discovery.com/history/new-king-120307.html
http://www.egyptindependent.com/node/694016

We're starting to get hype for that Chinese dentists' plans to
send a robot into the Great pyramid (and Zahi Hawass is involved):

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/08/us-hongkong-dentist-egypt-idUSBRE82707\
K20120308
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre82707k-us-hongkong-dentist-egypt/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2112027/Hong-Kong-dentist-help-ch\
eck-pharaohs-cavity-inside-Great-Pyramid.html

Feature on the folks illegally digging up antiquities in Egypt:

http://213.158.162.45/~egyptian/index.php?action=news&id=23395&title=Deluded%20d\
iggers%20defy%20death

The Penn Museum put up a nice video of Josef Wegner's talk abot
his work at Abydos this year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEAij2KQimk&feature=uploademail

... and another Wegner was giving a talk about love in the ancient
world (along with Ralph Rosen):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh5vwzusf-o&feature=uploademail

Feature on Alexandria:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1087/he2.htm

Nice feature on the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palestinae
project:

http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16117
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-ancient-graffiti-life-common.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120306131640.htm
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/1.417504
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/afot-au030612.php

There was a report this week that the Syrian army was attacking
Palmyra's Roman (Nabatean) ruins:

http://globalheritagefund.org/onthewire/blog/palmyras_ruins

A verdict in the James Ossuary case will be coming this week:

http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/biblical-archaeology-to\
pics/date-set-for-james-ossuary-verdict/?mqsc=E3066328
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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The Getty returned some items to Greece:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54098
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2017707764_apeugreecegettyan\
tiquities.html
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_GREECE_GETTY_ANTIQUITIES?SITE=AP&SECTI\
ON=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/03/09/4324381/las-getty-museum-returns-antiquities.ht\
ml
http://ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_09/03/2012_432138
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/j-paul-getty-museum-returns-5th-centu\
ry-bc-ancient-fragments-to-greece/2012/03/09/gIQAoAFE1R_story.html

A section of the Via Egnatia was uncovered in Thessaloniki:

http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/ancient-road-unearthed-in-greece-\
1.1248617

I doubt anyone is surprised to hear that the Medici Venus once had
colour:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/9124246/Chemical-analysis-shows-Medici-Ve\
nus-was-once-far-gaudier.html

Feature on recent research about Alexander in Egypt:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1087/he1.htm

A new (to me) podcast worth checking out ... this installment is
onthe Fasces:

http://www.ancientartpodcast.org/SCARABsolutions/Resources/Entries/2012/2/9_Epis\
ode_47__Roman_Fasces.html

Another piece on cutbacks in Greece and the threat to antiquities:

http://keranews.org/post/cutbacks-greeks-say-antiquities-are-risk

I think we had mention of this Ladino translation of the Iliad a
while ago:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/holocaust-survivor-revives-jewish-dial\
ect-by-translating-greek-epic-1.417423

There was a report this week that the Syrian army was attacking
Palmyra's Roman (Nabatean) ruins:

http://globalheritagefund.org/onthewire/blog/palmyras_ruins
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/march-2012/article/syrian-army-attacks-palm\
yras-roman-ruins

Brief item on the Meduproject:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2012/03/09/greece-and-italy-join-forces-to-study-mar\
ine-antiquities/

Interesting feature on recreating Caerleon's Roman amphitheatre:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17231530

What Anne Carson is up to:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/books/72354-classicist-deliver-byrne-lecture

Interview with Madeline Miller:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/kristof-odysseus-lies-here.html

Some guy goes to Cephalonia, so he writes an OpEd on the Bittlestone
theory about Ithaca:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/kristof-odysseus-lies-here.html

Feature on walking tours of Roman sites in London:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/in-the-know/london-cultural-attractions/913\
3362/London-Roman-history-guide.html

Marking International Women's Day in the Colosseum:

http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/lifeandtimes/romes-colosseum-reveals-secret-histo\
ry-of-women/503447
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IlKu3YWNgM

Review of Song of Achilles:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-song-of-achilles-by-madeli\
ne-miller/2011/12/12/gIQAW7satR_story.html

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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I think we've mention this Dover Bronze Age Boat project before:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2110578/Worlds-oldest-sea-going-b\
oat-sail-scientists-rebuild-Dover-Bronze-Age-Boat-ancient-tools-understand-peopl\
e-crossed-channel-1500BC.html?ITO=1490

A Bronze Age gold ring from Furness:

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/bronze-age-golden-ring-unearthed-in-furness-1.9313\
35?referrerPath=home

... while another Bronze Age ring was declared treasure:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-17289513

Latest CT scan treatment goes to Worsley Man:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-17300084
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2112499/Very-cold-case-2-000-year\
-old-murder-solved-CT-scan-reveals-Iron-Age-man-bludgeoned-strangled-beheaded-hu\
man-sacrifice.html

Scots and English universities are going to be talking Vikings:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17277318

A letter of Henry VIII was found at Dunham Massey:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-17258508

Hunting down some seventeenth century regicides:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16303861

Here's a followup to a story we reported some fifteen years ago (!)
... that warrior (with horse, sword, and shield) burial found on
the RAF Lakenheath site in 1997 is going to the Mildenhall Museum:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-17269289

Doing the DNA thing to find Basque roots:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120306181210.htm

Inn Stowe visitor centre reconstruction is complete:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-17312410

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Some 2000 (!) Buddha statues turn up in a dig in China's Hebei
province:

http://malaysiandigest.com/world/40915-thousands-of-buddha-statues-found-in-nort\
h-china.html

Big bucks expected for a Northern Song Dynasty bowl coming to
auction:

http://my.news.yahoo.com/ancient-chinese-bowl-auction-h-k-220531099.html

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Digging up the Modern Greece:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/03/08/3078449/civil-war-shipwreck-yields-i\
ts.html
http://www.stripes.com/news/artifact-recoveries-on-civil-war-shipwreck-in-time-f\
or-anniversary-1.171094

Honours for William Kelso:

http://hamptonroads.com/node/632551

Tracking Hopewell people migration through dental clues:

http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2012/03/insights-into-hopewell-population.h\
tml

Not sure if this is a review of a book, an auction preview, or
what but it's all about William Scagel's knife making activities:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/arts/design/knives-of-william-scagel-storied-b\
lacksmith-for-sale.html

More on the facial reconstruction of USS Monitor folks:

http://news.discovery.com/history/uss-monitor-faces-reconstruction-120306.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/uss-monitor-faces-reconstruction-photos-120306\
.html(photos)
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2012/03/02/this_week_in_the_civil_war\
/

Review of Natalie Dykstra, *Clover Adams*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/books/review/natalie-dykstras-biography-of-clo\
ver-adams.html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
On Maya women leaders:

http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=202656
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/242682-New-research-shows-ancient-Maya-women-w\
ere-powerful-leaders

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Feature on the use of LiDAR in archaeology:

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/03/indiana-jones-goes-geek-laser-mappin\
g-lidar-revolutionizes-archaeology.ars

Comparing human and gorilla genomes:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/07/us-gorilla-genome-sheds-new-light-huma\
n-idUSTRE8261VA20120307
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/wtsi-whw030512.php

... and I guess we'll mention what appears to be our earliest
ancestor (?):

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-human-worm-fossil-canada.html

The oldest film based on Dickens has been located:

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre82800k-us-dickens-film/

Darwin is off the hook for 'deceiving' Alfred Wallace:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-darwin-wallace-mystery.html

They've mapped the full site of the Titanic:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-full-titanic-site-1st.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-17273596
http://news.yahoo.com/apnewsbreak-full-titanic-mapped-1st-time-174336818.html

... and supposedly the moon played a role in her demise:

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre82519n-us-titanic-research-moon/
http://news.discovery.com/space/moon-titanic-120306.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-icebergs-accomplice-moon-titanic.html

An asteroid is now being blamed for the death of assorted megafauna
in the Americas:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/07/evidence_for_mammoth_asteroid/

... but both man and climate change are being blamed for megafauna
demise elsewhere:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-demise-large-animals-climate.html

Slideshow on the history of prosthetics:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16599006

Potentially useful: an aerial archaeology archive:

http://www.humanities.uwa.edu.au/research/cah/aerial-archaeology

Pondering the subject of Picasso's 'Woman Ironing':

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/arts/design/learning-the-identity-of-a-phantom\
-picasso-subject.html

More on the origins of blue eyes:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/02/do-blue-eyes-ste\
m-from-a-black-sea-resident-8000-years-ago/1#.T1PcwXmR4TY

Review of Kwasi Kwarteng, *Ghosts of Empire*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/books/review/ghosts-of-empire-by-kwasi-kwarten\
g.html

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Another antiquities bust in Greece, this time in Athens (I think):

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/greek-police-arrest-suspected-smugglers-seize-treasures\
-031130190.html
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2012/Mar-06/165624-44-arrested-in-greece\
-for-antiquities-trafficking.ashx
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/44-arrested-in-greece-1372361.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/9122719/Greek-police-arr\
est-44-over-illegal-antiquities-trafficking.html
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/search.hosted.ap.org/wireCoreTool/Search?t\
ype=Photo&output_format=PARA&query=Stolen+Antiquities&SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jgBT9mbqT9YsunwS5OfP0RXS1ZSA?d\
ocId=d8cdd9d39f054f1fab2700c7292ca58a

...this one in Chalcidiki seems to be another one:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/03/06/counting-of-looted-antiquities-comple\
te/

... or maybe it isn't (the coverage is confusing):

http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/1/53786

Police have recovered a number of paintings stolen from Rome forty
years ago:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/mar/09/stolen-paintings-rome-art-hei\
st

This link to a video was sent to me to draw attention to looting
by assorted gangs at El Hibbeh (and elsewhere) in Egypt:

http://www.alqaheraalyoum.net/videos/playvideo.php?vid=0164108b3

A pile of Lord Nelson's personal artifacts were stolen:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2110581/Plundered--37-800-worth-Lord-Nel\
son-s-personal-artefacts-stolen-Norwich-Castle.html

Some looted Cambodian artifacts were recovered from Sotheby's:

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Cambodians-Work-to-Recover-Priceless-An\
tiquities-141610743.html

More on Laurence O'Toole's stolen heart:

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/05/10582329-police-hunt-thief-who-s\
tole-ancient-heart-of-irish-saint-laurence-otoole

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Big bucks for a year one silver shekel:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54100
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g8WLHv6RbfBquZPiGEAP2NeYpJLg?\
docId=CNG.524e6f7b2b8480aa5a92b13164d02a18.111
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/for_just_one_shekel_LiM4EyaL42j7pRi\
DCmHGAN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Manhattan

Today's issue of the e-Sylum (should be out later today):

http://www.coinbooks.com/club_nbs_esylum_v15n11.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle
East:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-0308-museums-oriental-institu\
te-20120307,0,4621998.column

The Steins Collect:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/arts/design/the-steins-collect-matisse-and-pic\
asso-at-the-met.html?ref=design

Lux in Arcana:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2012/lux-in-arcana-the-vatic\
an-secret-archive-revealed

Islamic Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/arts/03iht-melikian03.html

Turkey is banning loans to US and British Museums:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/308999/20120305/turkey-metropolitan-museum-met-b\
ritish-exhibition-ertu.htm

The Corning Museum of Glass has launched a new website:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=54026


Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Otello:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/arts/music/cecila-bartoli-in-otello-at-zurich-\
opera-house.html?ref=design

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal

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OBITUARIES
================================================================
The New York Times reprised the obit of Howard Carter this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0509.html
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HUMANS
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Plenty of coverage of a potential new ancestor (for now, referred
to as the Red Deer Cave people):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/14/red-deer-cave-people-species-human
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17370170
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0314/Possible-new-human-species-unearthed-\
in-China
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0314/New-human-species-discovered-How-Chin\
a-fossils-could-redefine-human
http://www.theage.com.au/national/scientists-stumped-by-prehistoric-human-whose-\
face-doesnt-fit-20120314-1v3m0.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/14/new-human-species-red-deer-cave_n_13452\
16.html
http://www.livescience.com/19039-human-species-china-cave.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-mystery-human-fossils-spotlight-china.html

... a gallery of human ancestors:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2012/mar/14/anthropology-evolution
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/meet-the-other-ancestors-7570380.html

On climate change and human evolution:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-human-evolution-climate.html

Postulating an earlier form of writing included with petroglyphs? (not
sure where to put this one):

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/14/did-stone-age-cavemen-talk-to-each-other-i\
n-symbols/

More on Otzi's genetics:

http://www.physorg.com/news250761066.html
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A Canadian team has found what might be a statue of Hatshepsut:

http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/main/newsitems/statue-chapels-animal-mummies-found\
-egypt-u-of-t
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/uot-sca031212.php
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-statue-chapels-animal-mummies-egypt.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120312140250.htm
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/03/cross-dressing-pharo\
ah-found-i.html
http://www.leaderpost.com/technology/Canadian+archeologists+unearth+rare+wooden+\
statue+pharaoh/6296272/story.html
http://www.history.com/news/2012/03/13/egypt-dig-reveals-animal-mummies-and-poss\
ible-hatshepsut-statue/

On the return of archaeologists to Iraq:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/story/2012-03-10/archaeol\
ogy-returns-to-iraq/53449318/1
Latest from Gobekli Tepe:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46759542/ns/technology_and_science-science/

LandMinds interview with Norma Franklin about Jezreel:

http://foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/files/LM-13March12a.mp3
http://foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/files/LM-13March12b.mp3

cf: http://www.jezreel-expedition.com/

In case you missed it, there was a verdict in the Oded Golan trial (n.b.,
the
judge did not rule the James Ossuary is authentic ... that doesn't come
through in all the press coverage):

http://life.nationalpost.com/2012/03/16/antiquities-fraud-trial-ends-but-not-que\
stions-about-ossuarys-authenticity/
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/story/2012-03-17/james-os\
suary-jesus/53578490/1
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/03/14/2436962/israeli-antiquities-collector\
.html
http://chronicle.com/article/Jerusalem-Court-Acquits/131164/
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/03/israeli-antiquities-collectors\
-acquitted-but-archaeological-mystery-remains.html
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Israeli-court-clears-2-of-faking-Jesus-era\
-box-3405158.php
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israeli-court-acquits-2-men-accu\
sed-of-forging-bible-era-relics/2012/03/14/gIQAhCqQBS_story.html
http://www.timesofisrael.com/oded-golan-is-not-guilty-of-forgery-so-is-the-james\
-ossuary-for-real/
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1145906--james-ossuary-trial-acquits-i\
sraeli-man-of-forgery-charges
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/14/us-israel-archaeology-idUSBRE82D0XO201\
20314
http://www.timesofisrael.com/oded-golan-is-not-guilty-of-forgery-so-is-the-james\
-ossuary-for-real/
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISRAEL_ANTIQUITIES_ACQUITTAL?SITE=AP&S\
ECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/news/verdict-not-guilty/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/03/14/ossuary-james-acquitted-golan.html
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/antiquities-collector-acquitted-of-for\
gery-charges-in-james-ossuary-case/article2368752/
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/03/14/200624.html

... some responses from Golan and Deutsch:

http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/biblical-archaeology-to\
pics/oded-golan-speaks-out-on-forgery-trial-verdict/
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/biblical-archaeology-to\
pics/robert-deutsch-to-sue-iaa/

The ROM has no plans to 'remount' the James Ossuary exhibit:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/toronto-museum-wouldnt-remount-james-o\
ssuary-display-vice-president-says/article2369672/

Nice overview of recent finds from Israel:

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/IsraelExperience/Greatest-archeological-finds-in-Israe\
l-15-Mar-2012.htm

An up-and-comer in the ANE field?:

http://www.palisadespost.com/lifestyles/content.php?id=7359

Feature on the excavations at Kh. el-Maqatir:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/woo368016.shtml



Not sure if I mentioned this Maimonides series last week ... here
are the first two parts:

http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Arts/Article.aspx?id=260088
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeatures/Article.aspx?id=262162

Latest from Temple Mount (varies):

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/234867
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/153721


A clarification/correction on that "previously-unknown" pharaoh find last
week (it's actually first documented evidence of an already-know
pharaoh):

http://www.cfeetk.cnrs.fr/uk/index.php?page=senakhtenre

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Assorted finds from a dairy construction site in Arla:

http://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/local-news/roman-remains-found-at-arla-1-36370\
70

Latest on that Temple of Demeter find at Taman:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2012/03/12/the-secrets-of-the-temple-of-demeter-foun\
d-in-ancient-greek-ruins-in-russia/

A Roman kiln site found during primary school expansion in North
Yorkshire:

http://www.maltonmercury.co.uk/lifestyle/entertainment/roman-kiln-find-excites-s\
chool-1-4347393

Plans to give some Roman burial urns the CT scan treatment:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-17366284

Pompeii's Stabian baths have reopened:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2112356/Pompeiis-Stabian-Baths-reopens-1\
m-renovation.html

Greek archaeologists are appealing to Europeans to help defend/fund its
cultural heritage:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-12/greek-archaeologists-plead-for-help-to-\
protect-heritage-amid-austerity.html

Possible threat to Paphos antiquities from a proposed seaplane
landing site:

http://www.news.cyprus-property-buyers.com/2012/03/11/paphos-seaplane-project-co\
mes-under-fire/id=0010945

Archaeology mag has a feature on the Aqua Traiana:

http://www.archaeology.org/1203/features/rome_aqua_traiana_aqueduct_carestia.htm\
l

Classics Confidential talks with Helen King:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMILds1Gg4&feature=uploademail

Trailer for Andrew Irvine's production of Socrates on Trial (link to full
video
there as well):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yn1xSa7z00&feature=uploademail

What Jeff Tatum is up to:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1203/S00061/inaugural-lecture-plutarch-and-grec\
o-roman-biculturalism.htm\
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/13151494/being-greek-under-rome-pluta\
rch-and-greco-roman-biculturalism/

Feature on the Ides of March:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120315-ides-of-march-beware-caes\
ar-what-when-shakespeare-quote/

A 'visualization' of character relationships in the Iliad:

http://www.vizworld.com/2012/03/character-relationships-iliad/

Harry Mount on the new editions of the OCD and OLD:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9149925/The-classical-world-just-refuse\
s-to-stay-dead.html

Review of a number of books dealing with (inter alia) the Homeric
Question:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article993731.ece

Review of Madeline Miller, *Song of Achilles*:

http://books.usatoday.com/book/madeline-miller-the-song-of-achilles/r646129

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A seventh century teen found buried in her bed (possibly
the first Christian burial in England according to
some reports):

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54220
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/final-resting-place-british-archaeolo\
gists-discover-7th-century-teenager-buried-in-her-bed/2012/03/15/gIQAspAFES_stor\
y.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/16/uk-experts-find-7thcentur_n_1351636.htm\
l
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-skeleton-cambridge-evidence-christian-burial\
.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-17378845
http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/experts-find-7th-century-teen-bur\
ied-in-bed-1.1258071

... and an item focussing on the cross that was pinned to her
cloak:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/16/cross-bed-anglo-saxon-grave


A couple 13th century frescoes returned to their
home in Cyprus 30+ years after they had been removed
during the invasion:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/byzantine-frescoes/long-lost-frescoes-arrive-home/201\
20317

Weather exposes a 19th century shipwreck near Norfolk:

http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/what-s-on/days-out/norfolk_s_submerged_treasures_\
exposed_by_weather_1_1235263

Feature on the Flag Fen dig:

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/march-2012/article/archaeologists-return-to\
-excavate-major-3-300-year-old-bronze-age-site-in-england

Neolithic pottery from Inverness:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17397694

Finds from various periods in various places near Sheffield:

http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/local/prehistoric-and-roman-remains-are\
-discovered-1-4339119

Interesting feature on an Elizabethan Vizard:

http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.ca/2012/03/elizabethan-vizard.html

I think we mentioned this Ipswich Museum bones story last
week:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-17342869

Feature on Princess Charlotee:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/mar/13/brighton-royal-pavilion-princess-c\
harlotte

Review of Jerry White, *London in the Eighteenth Century*:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/historybookreviews/9133345/London-in-th\
e-Eighteenth-Century-by-Jerry-White-review.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
On monsoons and shifts in Indian civilizations:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-links-monsoon-major-shifts-indian.html

Plenty of finds from various periods on Australia's Salisbury Island:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/13172311/island-a-precious-time-ca\
psule
East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Someone is claiming to know the site of the wreck of the San Agustin:

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20167593/researcher-says-he-knows-si\
te-400-year-old

A house within a house find from Quogue:

http://westhampton-hamptonbays.patch.com/articles/historical-surprise-found-in-a\
ntiquity

A Confederate flagpole in a grave in Elizabethton:

http://www.starhq.com/2012/03/15/archaeologists-survey-discovers-confederate-fla\
gpole-in-grave/

Feature/exhibit on early women PhDs from Yale:

http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/publications/news/201202/first-yale-women-phd\
s.html

Getting Howard's collections in order:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/arts/a-plan-for-howard-universitys-moorland-sp\
ingarn-center.html

Review of James F. Brown, *Freedom's Gardener*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/books/review/myra-b-young-armsteads-freedoms-g\
ardener.html

Review of Julia Siler, *Lost Kingdom*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/lost-kingdom-a-history-of-hawaii.\
html
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A mass grave in Chiapas turns out to be a 1300 years b.p. burial ground:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17335586
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/weird-wide-web/mexicos-mas\
s-grave-1300-year-old-cemetery

A 'mystery crown' among  items on display marking the Diamond Jubilee:

http://icdumfries.icnetwork.co.uk/othernews/news//tm_headline=mystery-crown-amon\
g-royal-treasures%26method=full%26objectid=30522571%26siteid=77296-name_page.htm\
l
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Archaeology News from the Archaeology Channel (last week's):

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews11mar12.mp3

Not sure where to classify this revisionism in regards to ancient nomads:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/science/from-their-graves-ancient-nomads-speak\
.html
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/03/13/science/20120313-NOMA.html

As might be expected, there were several features on St Patrick this
week:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/17/world/europe/saint-patrick-study/
http://news.discovery.com/history/who-was-st-patrick.html
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/history-purpose/2012/mar/17/\
who-was-saint-patrick/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116153/St-Patricks-Day-legend-just-bit-\
blarney-He-runaway-tax-collector-turned-slave-
http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0317/stpatrick.html
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/03/17/oukoe-uk-stpatrick-history-idUKBRE82G00\
G20120317

This is kind of strange ... a political party in Armenia is runningon a
platform that the BM should return a statue of Anahit:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/03/how-a-mythical-fertilit\
y-goddess-could-help-steer-armenias-national-election/254652/
http://www.eurasianet.org/node/65135

They think they've found traces of Leonardo's 'Battle of Anghiari' (maybe):

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54130
http://news.yahoo.com/art-sleuths-believe-long-lost-da-vinci-found-151434869.htm\
l
http://news.yahoo.com/long-lost-da-vinci-masterpiece-possibly-found-032403876.ht\
ml
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/lost-leonardo-da-vinci-masterpiece-thought-\
found-behind-195958025.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-theory-lost-leonardo-da-vinci.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/uoc--dst031312.php

Canada and Norway ended their arguing over Amundsen's shipwreck:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-arctic-explorer-ship-norway.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-norway-arctic-explorer-amundsen-ship.html(pr\
e)

Encyclopedia Britannica ends its print version:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/13/encyclopedia-britannica-halts-print-\
publication
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/03/14/britannica-define-outdated/

Did a woman teach Christopher Wren?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/arts/design/the-case-for-a-17th-century-female\
-british-architect.html

Interesting hieroglyphics story:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-hieroglyphics-prisoner-20120314,0,553\
203.story

Totally out of our purview, but it's interesting to note that looters have
already
hit that Italian shipwreck that ran aground a month or so ago:

http://www.calgarysun.com/2012/03/16/thieves-evade-lasers-to-nab-shipwrecks-bell

Santorini might be in store for another big blow up:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-santorini-ground-paradise.html

This year's Bancroft Prize winner(s):

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/bancroft-prize-for-history-goes-to-\
three-scholars/

Another feature on LIDAR:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2012/03/12/l-is-for-l\
idar/

Why treasure hunting (the underwater variety) is big bucks (op ed):

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/13/business/sunken-treasure-business/index.html

Reviewish of Ted Bishop, *Social Life of Ink*:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-social-life-ink.html

Review of Kathryn Harrison, *Enchantments*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/kathryn-harrisons-enchantments.ht\
ml

Review of Anne Sebba, *That Woman*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/that-woman-by-anne-sebba.html

Review of Eyal Press, *Beautiful Souls*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/beautiful-souls-by-eyal-press.htm\
l
http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Assorted sites in Turkey:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/turkey/9137950/Away-from-t\
he-desk-Benedict-Brogans-crash-course-in-the-antiquities-of-Turkey.html

Interview with Peter Whitfield about  his *Travel: A Literary History*:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/peter-whitfield-talks-about-the-his\
tory-of-travel-literature/
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Some would-be looters in Egypt were killed when their 'site'
caved in on them:

http://straitstimes.com.feedsportal.com/c/32792/f/524621/s/1d5b7133/l/0L0Sstrait\
stimes0N0CBreakingNews0CWorld0CStory0CSTIStory0I7767660Bhtml/story01.htm
http://213.158.162.45/~egyptian/index.php?action=news&id=23395&title=Deluded%20d\
iggers%20defy%20death
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/03/12/200177.html

Spain returned some items purloined from Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/36583/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Nine-l\
imestone-reliefs-are-back-home-from-Spain.aspx
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2012/03/12/spain-to-return-antiquitie\
s-to-egypt-dating-back-to-time-pharaohs/

Perhaps not surprisingly, Syrian antiquities are being "eyed":

http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/5043/

A bust in Mexico:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=478658&CategoryId=14091

More on the looting at El Hibeh:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2012/massive-looting-at-el-h\
ibeh-egypt
http://www.eloquentpeasant.com/2012/03/09/looting-in-el-hibeh/#101

More on those looters guided by the Copper Scroll:

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/no-gold-in-them-hills-1.417506

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Big bucks for a 'year one' shekel:

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/03/11/3092076/ancient-judean-shekel-nets-11\
-million-at-auction
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=54100

... here's a different spin:

http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=6541

The High Weald hoard of Roman coins is on display:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-17378763

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n11.html

... and the one which will probably be out by the time I finish
this week's explorator (It's taking forever!):

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n12.html


Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
========
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
A Day in Pompeii:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/travel/2012/03/18/1-out-of-the-ashes.htm\
l

Antikythera Shipwreck:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2012/03/06/visualizza_n\
ew.html_128211190.html
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/03/06/national-archaeological-museum-to-pre\
sent-temporary-exhibition-of-the-antikythera-shipwreck/

Inca Empire:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/rss/fa20120315t1.html

Etruscans:

http://visnews-en.blogspot.ca/2012/03/vatican-museums-contribute-to.html

Weimar Classicism:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54224

Verbum Domini:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7grozBoF9Y&feature=uploademail

Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/arts/design/princes-and-painters-in-mughal-del\
hi-at-asia-society.html

Degas:

http://www.ajc.com/travel/degas-impressionism-stripped-bare-1386540.html

Byzantium and Islam:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/design/byzantium-and-islam-age-of-transit\
ion-at-the-met.html

Alexander the Great:

http://nine-to-five.whereilive.com.au/lifestyle/story/alexander-the-great-comes-\
to-sydney-museum-1/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-09/alexander-the-great-exhibition/3879368/?si\
te=newcastle
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/alexander-the-great-exhibition-\
rides-into-the-australian-museum-in-sydney/story-e6freuzi-1226295072363

The Getty returned a couple items to Greece:

http://usa.greekreporter.com/2012/03/11/getty-museum-returns-two-ancient-artifac\
ts-to-greece/

The Deutsches Historisches Museum has to return some Nazi looted posters:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/german-museum-ordered-to-return-col\
lection-of-posters-seized-by-nazis/

Some interesting coverage of items available at the Maastricht thing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/arts/17iht-melikian17.html

Some Old Masters auction 'advice':

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/16iht-rartmelikian16.html

Assorted antiques/auction items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/design/fern-history-fry-glass-and-a-milit\
iamans-sword.html

Coverage of Asia Week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/design/asia-week-in-new-york-includes-mor\
e-than-40-shows.html

Profile of one of the more prolific auction patrons:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/16iht-rartjessop16.html

Plenty of museum items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/artsspecial/

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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L'Apeggiata:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/music/larpeggiatas-period-instruments-at-\
zankel-hall.html

Francois Cuperin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/arts/music/tenet-performs-couperins-lessons-fo\
r-lent.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Jennifer Cosham,
Patrick Swan, Don Buck, A. Landreau, Edward Rockstein,
Laval Hunsucker, June Samaras, Hernan Astudillo, Kurt Theis,
Wendy van Duivenvoorde, John McMahon, Barnea Selavan,
Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths,
Bob Heuman, Rick Pettigrew,and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses
this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Why our ancestors started walking around on two feet:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-reveals-ancestors-bipedal-power.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/team-sheds-light-upright-walking-000212560.html

The importance of sediba:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=first-of-our-kind
http://io9.com/5894866/why-australopithecus-sediba-could-rewrite-our-evolutionar\
y-history

They might know where the original Peking Man fossils are:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/03/22/report-from-former-u\
-s-marine-hints-at-whereabouts-of-long-lost-peking-man-fossils/
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/03/22/are-the-lost-peking-man-fossi\
ls-buried-under-a-parking-lot-in-china/
http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/ancient-fossil-could-be-buried-un\
der-car-park-1.1262480

Top ten hominid fantasy finds:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/03/top-ten-hominid-fantasy-finds/

Cooking turned humans into an invasive species?:

http://io9.com/5895119/how-cooking-turned-humans-into-an-invasive-species
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AFRICA
================================================================
On the DNA front, Madagascar was apparently founded by women (not
sure that's an accurate headline):

http://news.discovery.com/history/madagascar-women-120320.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-indonesian-eves-colonised-madagascar-years.h\
tml
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/indonesian-eves-colonised-madagascar-1-200-years-ago-00\
4901696.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Combining assorted satellite methods has revealed a pile of sites in Syria:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=satellites-expose-8000-years-lo\
st-civilization
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-archaeologist-satellite-images-early-human.h\
tml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17436400
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/20/satellites-spy-thousands-ancient-human\
-settlements/
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0320/Satellites-identify-thousands-of-smal\
l-hills-as-ancient-human-settlements
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/243160-Satellites-reveal-thousands-of-ancient-\
human-settlements
http://www.livescience.com/19153-ancient-settlements-satellites-surveys.html
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/03/12/1115472109

A proposed redating of the Meidum cemetery:

http://en.naukawpolsce.pl/palio/html.run?_Instance=cms_naukapl.pap.pl&_PageID=1&\
s=szablon.depesza&dz=archeology&dep=388729&data=&lang=EN&_CheckSum=-1851997953

Plans to open six tombs on the Giza Plateau:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/37069/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Six-Ol\
d-Kingdom-tombs-to-be-opened-at-Giza-Plateau.aspx

Earliest known horse bit turns up at Tel-Haror:

http://horsetalk.co.nz/2012/03/20/archaeologists-discover-earliest-known-metal-b\
it/

The Israel MFA ponders Israel's greatest archaeological finds:

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/IsraelExperience/Greatest-archeological-finds-in-Israe\
l-15-Mar-2012.htm

A reporter spent a week digging at KhirbetQeiyafa:

http://www.freep.com/article/20120318/FEATURES07/203180306/

Archaeologists return to Iraq:

http://www.npr.org/2012/03/23/149231682/-archaeologists-revisit-iraq
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/march-2012/article/troops-leave-archaeologi\
sts-return-as-hope-for-iraqs-cultural-relics-and-tourism-industry-grow

Pondering the purpose of some ancient figurines from Israel:

http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/artifacts-and-the-bi\
ble/apotropaic-guardians-ancient-symbols-divine-icons-or-children%E2%80%99s-toys\
/

Pondering the question of the existence of Israel in ancient times:

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/march172012/ancient-israel-ae.php

Followup to Harvard's revival of an Egyptology program:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/3/23/egyptologist-manuelian/

A Bethesda woman returned a number of objects (prehistoric) to Saudi
Arabia:

http://www.gazette.net/article/20120321/NEWS/703219502/1007/bethesda-woman-retur\
ns-to-saudi-arabia-with-prehistoric-artifacts&template=gazette

Some followup opinions to the Oded Golan trial:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-burleigh-bible-ossuary-forg\
ery-20120325,0,2491331.story
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/fle368021.shtml
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israeli-cleared-of-forging-j\
esus-brothers-burial-box-relic-7567034.html

Latest TAU microarchaeology lab newsletter:

http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/archaeology/LCM%20Mar%2012.pdf

Review of Joyce Tyldesley, *Tutankhamen*:

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2012/03/tutankhamen_the_search_fo\
r_an.html

Review of Elaine Pagels, *Revelations*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/books/revelations-by-elaine-pagels.html

More on Gobelki Tepe as 'cosmopolitan centre':

http://www.livescience.com/19085-world-oldest-temple-tools-pilgrimage.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
That diet-of-gladiators is making the rounds again from some
reason:

http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/03/23/did-gladiators-in-rome-observe-kosher-laws-\
video/

Bronze Age settlement from Thasos (article in Greek):

http://www.tovima.gr/culture/article/?aid=449532#.T2r65p2iYpg.email

Back in the day, Greece apparently pondered  buying back the
Elgin Marbles:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iaymq4bBR2mc2M-cSUvqnDpCVE7w?\
docId=CNG.68eb0d745951ee8e2437a64149a8832f.41

A fly-though of the latest version of Rome Reborn:

http://vimeo.com/32038695

Some photos from Hadrian's Villa:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erica-firpo/postcard-from-the-villa-adriana_b_1363\
853.html

Boris Johnson spins the Olympic Torch origins story:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/9153631/Boris-Johnson-gives-lesson-on-\
Olympic-flame-history.html

James Romm ponders Alexander the Great's death:

http://www.historytoday.com/james-romm/who-killed-alexander-great

The Boston MFA acquires a huge statue of Juno:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304450004577279650134903754.html

More on returns to Greece from the Getty:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54098

Review of A.M. Juster (trans), *The Elegies of Tibullus*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/25/tibullus-elegies-review

I think we mentioned these Roman burial urns from near
St Albans:

http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/9600246.Roman_mysteries_uncovered_in_Chip\
penham/r/

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A survey reveals a cluster of cairns and sites in Caithness:

http://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/News/Survey-reveals-cluster-of-ancient-cairn\
s-20032012.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17463275

A 14th century silver seal found by a metal detectorist is garnering some
interest:

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/Silver-Lincolnshire-field-sparks-British-Mus\
eum/story-15534605-detail/story.html

The Cutty Sark has reopened five years after that fire:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/21/cutty-sark-gallery-long-john-silver-fig\
ureheads

Archaeologists have started excavating a mass grave which dates to
the Thirty Years' War near Lutzen:

http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20120324-41541.html

Chemical analysis of some of Nelson's sailor's has been used
to reconstruct their diet:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-archaeologists-reconstruct-diet-nelson-navy.\
html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/w-ard032312.php

On traditions helping folks in Medieval Iceland:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-conservatism-iceland-catastrophe.html
http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/news/story.aspx?id=1186

Plans to save the ruins of Quarr Abbey:

http://iwcp.co.uk/news/news/abbey-launches-community-plan-43587.aspx

Remains of some Franciscan monks (maybe) found during road
construction at St Andrews:

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/tayside/301295-franciscan-monk-remains-unearthed-at-\
roadworks-site/

Venice is apparently still sinking:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120321172208.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-venice-hasnt.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57401506/city-of-venice-still-sinking-study-\
says/

The Viking Mice invasion:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-viking-journey-mice-men.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/trending/2012/03/20/viking_mice_invaded_the_north_atl\
antic_like_crazy_too.html

More on that early-Christian-buried-in-her-bed find:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/pictures/120321-anglo-saxon-trea\
sure-christian-burial-gold-cross-cambridge/

Another 'sound effects' study, this time on a very old stone structure
from Malta:

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/march-2012/article/ancient-builders-created\
-monumental-structures-that-altered-sound-and-mind-say-researchers

What lies beneath the Mound of Down:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/unearthin\
g-the-mystery-of-what-lies-beneath-the-ancient-mound-of-down-16132883.html

Building a monastery medieval-style:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,822375,00.html

Review of Ian Mortimer, *The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan
England*:

http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/03/time-travellers-guide-elizabethan-engla\
nd

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Australia's megafauna were hunted to extinction according to
fecal evidence:

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/humans-killed-australia039s-b\
ig-beasts/story-e6frea83-1226307827470
http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568301/s/1db64116/l/0L0Stelegraph0O0C\
earth0Cearthnews0C916210A70CHuman0Ehunting0Ecaused0Eextinction0Eof0Emegafauna0Bh\
tml/story01.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-hunters-climate-giant-beasts-yearsago.html

A Buddha statue is the latest thing to get a CAT scan:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/buddha-goes-to-the-hospita\
l-medical-scans-reveal-rare-documents-inside-17th-century-sculpture/2012/03/22/g\
IQADq96TS_story.html

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Earliest trace of human presence in Ohio:

http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Butchered+sloth+bone+lends+more+eviden\
ce+early+North+American/6332457/story.html
http://www.canada.com/Butchered+sloth+bone+lends+more+evidence+early+North+Ameri\
can+settlement/6332336/story.html

Settling the dispute over Drake's 1579 landfall in California:

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20215163/calif-bay-be-named-explorer\
s-landing-place

Assorted interesting finds from Dritt Mansion:

http://www.ydr.com/history/ci_20215927/archeology-revealed-unusual-finds-at-drit\
t-mansion

Finds from various periods from a dig at Luke Air Force
Base (Arizona):

http://www.dcmilitary.com/article/20120323/NEWS09/703239915/archeologists-uneart\
h-artifacts-at-luke-afb

Monitor v Virginia:

http://articles.boston.com/2012-03-11/metro/31143362_1_confederate-ship-virginia\
-ironclads-face-of-naval-warfare

Some old trolley tracks turn up in Hendersonville:

http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20120318/ARTICLES/120319790
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
That gold crown given to Queen Victoria might not have been
made by the Incas after all:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54289

Latest theory on the demise of the Mayans:

http://news.yahoo.com/did-belief-gods-lead-mayan-demise-223407714.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/mayans-gods-120322.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Latest video news from the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

The latest Shroud of Turin claim, just in time for Easter:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9162459/Mystery-solved-Turin-Shroud-lin\
ked-to-Resurrection-of-Christ.html

One of my alma maters just acquired an interesting bit of equipment which
will be useful for archaeological research, I suspect:

http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/692531--mcmaster-opens-new-archeology-\
lab

A previously-unknown Mozart composition turns up in Austria:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17490070
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/24/lost-mozart-work-found/

Latest in the Odyssey Marine thing (I thought this was already done):

http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/03/21/actualidad/1332354607_623738.html

Famous sunken ancient cities:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/318530/20120323/sunken-city-atlantis-cities-medi\
terranean-world-around.htm

Prominent French families are hurling accusations about a missing Monet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/arts/design/prominent-french-families-battle-o\
ver-a-missing-monet.html

Plans to resume the search for Amelia Earhart:

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/316862/20120321/amelia-earhart-search-news-confer\
ence-hillary-clinton.htm
http://news.discovery.com/history/amelia-earhart-search-resumes-120320.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/a-small-broken-cosmetic-glass-jar-fragments-of\
-rouge-from-a-womans-compact-buttons-parts-of-a-pocket-knife-that-was-beat.html

More on the possible find of the Battle of Anghiari:

http://www.france24.com/en/20120312-art-experts-found-lost-da-vinci-mural-palazz\
io-vecchio-florence-italy-leonardo

Ancient folk apparently knew how to sustain a fishery:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-ancient-civilizations-reveal-ways-fisheries.\
html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/su-acr031612.php

On 'runner's high' and the evolution of exercise:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-runner-high-evolution.html

A (free) GIS webinar is coming up next week:

http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/26233/2/

Review of *The Papers of Thomas A. Edison*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/the-seventh-volume-of-thomas-edis\
ons-papers.html

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Belize:

http://www.thespec.com/living/travel/article/690410--mayan-ruins-in-belize-stand\
-alone-with-prehistory

Arqua:

http://www.travelagentcentral.com/newscred?guid=68b539a01c655e433975619a24981dad

Jerusalem:

http://www.jpost.com/Travel/AroundIsrael/Article.aspx?id=262962

Baghdad:

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/20/world/meast/baghdad-architecture/index.html

Volubilis:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54310
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2012/mar/20/bc-ml--travel-trip-morocco-remains-of-rom\
e1462/
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Morocco-s-Roman-ruins-Stunning-with-few-to\
urists-3420978.php
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Warnings of organized looting to come in Syria:

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/march-2012/article/leaked-government-memo-w\
arns-of-organized-looting-in-syria

Another antiquities dealer gets his comeuppance:

http://agourahills.patch.com/articles/antiquities-dealer-gets-home-detention-fin\
es-for-illegally-dealing-in-indian-artifacts

A pair of diggers arrested for digging into some Native American mounds:

http://www.sunherald.com/2012/03/19/3827306/2-arrested-for-digging-into-indian.h\
tml

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A huge Roman hoard from Bath:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/9161483/Hoard-of-30000-silver-Rom\
an-coins-discovered-in-Bath.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/318404/20120323/roman-coins-largest-collection\
-britain-beau-street.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-17480016
http://news.discovery.com/history/roman-coins-120323.html
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/318404/20120323/roman-coins-largest-collection-br\
itain-beau-street.htm
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/03/30000-roman-silv\
er-coins-found-at-work-site-in-bath/1
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/03/23/Hoard-of-Roman-coins-unearthed-in-Eng\
land/UPI-80201332520356/

Big bucks for an Augustus Aureus:

http://news.coinupdate.com/gold-aureus-of-famed-first-emperor-augustus-1277/

A hoard of 300 years b.p. Indian gold coins from near Sandur:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/300-year-old-gold-coins-found-near-Bell\
ary/articleshow/12396234.cms

More on that 'Year One' shekel sale:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54100

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n12.html

... and the one that should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n13.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Hajj:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/mar/19/british-mus\
eum-hajj-pilgrimage-propaganda

Alexander the Great:

http://wentworth-courier.whereilive.com.au/lifestyle/story/ancient-treasures-on-\
the-way-for-alexander-the-great-exhibition/

Klimt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/arts/design/neue-galerie-to-celebrate-klimts-b\
irthday.html

The Louvre has put DaVinci's Saint Anne on display:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/23/louvre-unveils-da-vincis-last-masterpiece/

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/nyregion/a-review-of-life-liberty-and-the-purs\
uit-of-happiness-at-yale-university.html

A couple of interesting exhibitions at Yale:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/arts/design/making-history-and-remembering-sha\
kespeare-at-yale.html

Top ten (by attendance) museums:

http://www.agi.it/english-version/people/elenco-notizie/201203232245-spe-ren1108\
-no_italian_museum_in_world_s_top_ten

Some observations from the European Fine Art Fair:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/24/arts/24iht-melikian24.html

Goings-ons at the Motown Historical Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/arts/design/motown-piano-restored-postcard-boo\
ks-film-on-lynd-ward.html

Economy problems are affecting all sorts of arts-related programs in Europe:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/world/europe/the-euro-crisis-is-hurting-cultur\
al-groups.html?ref=arts

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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The Thomanerchor of Leipzig celebrates its 800th birthday:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/mar/21/oldest-choir-800-year-anniversary
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/21/worlds-oldest-choir-celebrates-800-years-o\
f-singing-in-harmony/

Notre Dame:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/arts/music/notre-dame-franz-schmidts-opera-at-\
carnegie-hall.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Brian Shefton:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/915\
3928/Professor-Brian-Shefton.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Lucy had cousins in the neighbourhood it seems:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/120328-lucy-fossil-foot-science-aus\
tralopithecus-trees-evolution/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/29/new_homninin_found/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17533826
http://www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-features/62392-new-hominid-discovered-li\
ving-alongside-lucy
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/04/new-hominid-fossil-foot-belonge\
d-to-lucys-neighbor/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/science/african-foot-fossil-indicates-another-\
hominin-species-lived-with-lucy.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2121975/Unearthed-fossilised-foot-reveal\
s-previously-unknown-human-species-lived-half-million-years-ago.html
http://news.yahoo.com/foot-shows-prehuman-walked-same-time-lucy-172512927.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/cmon-dof032812.php
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-lucy-cousins-discovery-foot-fossil.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/28/fossil-foot-walking-climbing-trees\
?newsfeed=true
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46882487/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Hominids may have been using fire a million years ago:

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1157081--human-ancestors-may-have-used\
-fire-a-million-years-ago
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/cooking-the-1-million-year\
-old-technology/255455/
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/04/the-earliest-example-of-hominid\
-fire/
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0403/Were-early-humans-cooking-their-food-\
a-million-years-ago
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17598738
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/02/scientists-clue-human-evolution-qu\
estion
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-fire-20120403,0,5516323.story
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-04-human-ancestors-million-years-archaeologist.\
html
http://news.yahoo.com/study-ancestors-used-fire-million-years-ago-190741815.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/03/humans_using_fire_a_million_years_ago/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304023504577319923936483222.html?m\
od=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

Interesting well-preserved woolly mammath carcass from Siberia shows both
animal predation and human use:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-mammoth-siberia-early-lions.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17525070
http://news.discovery.com/animals/woolly-mammoth-yuka-120404.html

How (why?) homo sapiens became so successful, evolution-wise:

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/06/150123937/how-homo-sapiens-became-masters-of-the-p\
lanet

Feature on Piltdown Man:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/2012/04/01/strange-skull-\
rewrites-history-of-man/

More on Neanderthals being almost extinct in Europe by the
time humans arrived:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2122832/European-Neanderthals-ext\
inct-long-humans-showed-according-DNA-evidence.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/neanderthals-died-out-humans-120329.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46894761/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/243543-Neanderthals-Were-Dying-Out-Before-Huma\
ns-Arrived
http://phys.org/news/2012-03-european-neandertals-extinct-humans.html

More on the location of Peking Man:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90782/7768484.html
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AFRICA
================================================================
The annual concern for heritage in Timbuktu:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17596831
http://www.elpais.com/iphone/index.php?module=iphone&page=elp_iph_visornoticias&\
idNoticia=20120403elpnepint_15.Tes

Suggestion that Europeans headed to Africa to weather out
the Ice Ages:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-genetic-unravels-ancient-links-african.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2120940/Early-humans-moved-Europe\
-Africa-long-recorded-history-claims-new-genetic-study.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A pink granite sarcophagus from Egypt:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Arts/Mar/16/Rare-pink-granite-sarcophagus-un\
covered-in-Egypt.ashx#axzz1qWMxEwz3

Plans to dig at Tel Achziv:

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/march-2012/article/archaeologists-excavate-\
ancient-phoenician-port-city

El Hibeh continues to be an area of concern:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/37656/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Facebo\
ok-page-to-save-ancient-Egypts-ElHibeh-site.aspx

A mummy in Albany will be getting the CT Scan thing:

http://www.benningtonbanner.com/local/ci_20304588/scans-may-reveal-albany-mummie\
s-rsquo-secrets
http://www.troyrecord.com/articles/2012/04/01/news/doc4f7795f610359162125808.txt

... and one from a Cornish museum got the treatment:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-17513748

UNESCO is worried about Syrian antiquities:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/unesco-chief-appeals-for-safegua\
rding-rich-cultural-heritage-in-violence-marred-syria/2012/03/30/gIQAUVZnlS_stor\
y.html
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/03/syrian-ancient-sites-under-threat.html

... and apparently for good reason:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2012/Apr-06/169378-experts-sound-alarm-o\
ver-syria-archaeological-treasures.ashx

Cyprus and Israel are working on a database for archaeology:

http://www.financialmirror.com/news-details.php?nid=26059
http://famagusta-gazette.com/cyprus-and-israel-to-cooperate-in-forming-database-\
for-archaeology-p14999-69.htm

Interesting Lod Mosaic followup:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/1.422037


Politics and the City of David excavations:

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/in-jerusalem-s-city-of-david-excavation-\
politics-is-never-absent-1.421448

cf: http://www.jpost.com/Travel/AroundIsrael/Article.aspx?id=264005

... and this week:

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=264714
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=263430

Studying ancient Egyptian cotton:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120402093938.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-04-ancient-egyptian-cotton-unveils-secrets.html

An unusually massive bit of coverage for the recovery of a pair of Egyptian
coffin lids in Israel:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/ahead-of-passover-israel-authorities-seize-\
remains-of-ancient-egypt-coffin-1.422344
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=264615
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/154454
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.timesofisrael.com/smuggled-ancient-egyptian-sarcophagi-found-in-jerus\
alem-old-city-shop/
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/38408/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Two-an\
cient-Egyptian-sarcophagus-covers-seized-in-.aspx
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j5ErOZWBrpgQxrcSfrWMHoDlDFOg?d\
ocId=489cb8d248e248b095fd38ffaf98fb90

... and there was a recovery of Egyptian antiquities in Belgium as well:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1092/eg3.htm
http://bikyamasr.com/64658/egypt-restores-80-relics-from-belgium-following-court\
-ruling/

Ronny Reich talks about the Oded Golan thing:

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/faking-it-1.421463


Another interviewish thing with Oded Golan:

http://www.express.co.uk/features/view/313400/Why-I-believe-this-box-contains-Je\
sus-s-brother%20?%3E

... and I can't remember if I mentioned this one:

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/israeli-antiquities-collector-talks-ab\
out-his-trial-and-his-acquittal-1.421645

Pondering ownership of Nefertiti and the Rosetta Stone:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1092/he1.htm

Pondering haggadah differences:

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/anglo-file/1.421627

... and a feature on the Wolf Haggadah:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=3690

Zahi Hawass is facing more charges:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/38308/Egypt/Politics-/Egypts-Indian\
a-Jones-faces-charges.aspx
http://www.galleristny.com/2012/04/zahi-hawass-former-antiquities-minister-faces\
-charges-in-egypt/


Hype for that upcoming Tabor/Jacobovici Talpiot tomb thing:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/exploring-tombs-in-jerusalem/2012/\
04/05/gIQAunhQyS_gallery.html
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/04/04/3092550/jerusalem-archeological-find-\
is-first-reference-to-resurrection

... which sparked this:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/aprilweb-only/archaeology-jesus-tomb.ht\
ml

Moses was apparently a Muslim:

http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=6716

Review of Elaine Pagels *Revelations*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/books/review/revelations-by-elaine-pagels.html
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/31/four-big-myths-about-the-book-of-revela\
tion/comment-page-116/
Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
The Romans had celebrity recruiters for their army, apparently:

http://news.discovery.com/history/roman-martial-arts-celeb-120330.html
http://www.livescience.com/19354-martial-artist-recruited-ancient-roman-army.htm\
l

A sanctuary of Asklepios:

http://www.asianage.com/newsmakers/greeks-find-remains-healing-sanctuary-492

A Hellenistic/Roman cemetery from Thessaloniki:

http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/1/54479

The first floor of the Stoa of Attalos has opened to the public:

http://ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite4_1_26/03/2012_434797

A big Juno is revealed in Boston:

http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/04/06/mfa-unveils-juno-largest-classical-statu\
e/ecUJoLdfu88UVjhMt9Pc6L/story.html

Ten best emperors?:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/06/john-mullan-ten-best-emperors

Some Roman-era finds from Sozopol:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=138127

A Kore turned up in a goat pen in Greece:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54454
http://www.thestate.com/2012/03/28/2211416/greek-police-recovers-ancient.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/28/greek-statue-found-goat-pen
http://www.newser.com/article/d9tpim7g2/ancient-greek-statue-recovered-from-goat\
-pen-near-athens-2-suspected-looters-arrested.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jJM24t6royfFsAKkXkNxzBXx9NSA?\
docId=CNG.0bd36df6ab57c7f3f39750504c09e57e.a21

... and later turned out to be a forgery:

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2012/04/03/seized_ancient_greek\
_statue_declared_a_forgery/
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_03/04/2012_436280
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17596144


Rome doesn't want those faux gladiators messing with tourists,
it seems:

http://www.npr.org/2012/03/30/149674933/rome-drives-away-photogenic-gladiators
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/03/disappearing-gladiator-rome-co\
losseum.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/gladiators-colosseum-120404.html

... that was last week; this week, the gladiators turned to protest:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/world/6709428/Scorned-gladiators-climb\
-Colosseum
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/04/07/3541242/angry-gladiators-climb-colosseum.ht\
ml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/10184132
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/roman-gladiators-climb-colosseum-to-p\
rotest-crackdown-on-unauthorized-posing-with-tourists/2012/04/07/gIQAWFag1S_stor\
y.html

Archaeology is Greece's 'Achilles heel' right now, it seems:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite4_1_05/04/2012_436567
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2012/Apr-07/169494-archaeology-a-burden-\
on-debt-stricken-greece.ashx
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/04/06/12/amid-debt-crisis-archaeology-become\
s-greeces-achilles-heel

... and Pompeii is getting an infusion of cash:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17634115

... and Italy has plans for other sites:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/world/europe/italy-unveils-plan-to-preserve-si\
tes-and-prevent-interference-by-organized-crime-at-pompeii.html

Feature on sword and sandal flicks:

http://news.moviefone.com/jason-apuzzo/hail-caesar-whats-good-ba_b_1401721.html

... in a similar vein:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/9174269/Top-12-films-\
based-on-classical-mythology.html

Mary Beard's day:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Business/Working-day/Mary-Beard-03042012.htm

... and she was playing with the Sortes Vergilianae:

http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2012/03/sortes-virgilianae.html

Are the Elgin Marbles special?:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/apr/02/are-the-parthenon-marbles-so-\
special

... while Stephen Fry advocates for their return:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/apr/01/stephen-fry-elgin-marbles-gre\
ece

The charioteer of Mozia is coming to London:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Divinely-beautiful-Greek-charioteer-come\
s-to-London/26280

Interview with Madeline Miller:

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/styled-to-a-t-madeline-miller/

What Robert Woolverton is up to:

http://nems360.com/pages/full_story/push?article-April+Fools%E2%80%99+Day+-+Pran\
king+tradition+goes+back+centuries+-seriously-%20&id=18074410&instance=secondary\
_stories_left_column

Latest Ancient Art podcast is on te Apollo Sauroktonos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAZ775lu07g&context=C4ccd205ADvjVQa1PpcFMZ8lWdC9E\
rSOGYvOs9lS54d0y5E-bifvU=

Dalhousie's version of the Pythian Games:

http://www.dal.ca/news/2012/03/20/a-classical-experience-at-the-pythian-games.ht\
ml

Review of Jennifer T. Roberts, *Herodotus*:

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/herodotus-very-short-introduction-jennifer-robert\
s

Review of *Song of Achilles*:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504367_162-57406364-504367/the-song-of-achilles-by-m\
adeline-miller/
Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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The bones of folks who sank with the Mary Rose are being examined:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17536851

Finds dating back to the 12th century from a housing development site
in Eynsham:

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/9631914.Village_history_revealed_in_dig/

Bones discovered a few years ago at a St John's College site might
belong to Viking raiders rather than massacred Danes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-17595823

Summer wasn't the best time to be a Tudor, apparently:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17601616

A Bronze Age gold torq from a Northern Ireland bog:

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1154300--treasure-hunter-finds-ancient\
-gold-jewellery-in-bog-in-northern-ireland
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17561882

Possible remains of western Europe's oldest stringed
instrument from a cave on Skye:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17537147
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/243534-Archaeologists-astounded-by-musical-ins\
trument-find-in-Skye-cave

Feature on assorted finds from assorted periods in Koln:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,824797,00.html

Bronze Age artifacts from Wiltshire are going on display:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-17553249

Theory (not new, surely) that Gardom Edge monolith was some sort of
calendrical device:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-evidence-stacks-monolith-gardom-edge.html
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/neolithic-monolith-sundial/
http://www.space.com/15050-ancient-monolith-astronomical-marker.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/monolith-astronomy-120327.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1

Concerns for a collection of Wellington memorabilia:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/artsales/9168992/Battle-to-save-Wellingto\
n-legacy.html

Funds for Lincoln Castle:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-17541084

Some 18th century bone telescopes from Amsterdam:

http://news.yahoo.com/18th-century-bone-telescopes-discovered-amsterdam-22240736\
6.html

A possible Saxon church find:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/05/york-minster-archaeology-saxon-fin\
ds

Beer and bling in Iron Age Europe:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120319163710.htm

I think we mentioned the recovery of these Byzantine frescoes from Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/byzantine-frescoes/stolen-frescoes-unveiled-their-new\
-home/20120328

Hype for a television program about the merits of various antiquities
found in the UK:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/mar/26/tv-show-most-important-archaeologica\
l-find

France and Bulgaria are working together at Sozopol:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=137865

Review(ish) of Richard Davies, *Wooden Churches - Travelling in the Russian
North*:

http://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/alexander-mozhayev/tragedy-of-russias-aba\
ndoned-wooden-churches

Review of Peter McPhee, *Robespierre*:

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/robespierre-revolutionary-life-peter-mcphee
Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
'Stone Age' remains on Taiwan may help understand the peopling
of the Pacific:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-04-taiwan-pacific-settlers.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/taiwan-may-throw-light-pacific-settlers-051712139.html

On the DNA front, Afghans are apparently genetically unique:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-afghans-unique-genetic-heritage-dna.html

Searching for Black Jack:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/13261039/in-search-of-pirate-black\
-jack/

Remains of a 12th century shipwreck off Indonesia:

http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/80111/french-archaeologist-discover-12th-centu\
ry-shipwreck

Feature on Pitcairn Island:

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/03/30/pitcairn-islands-expedition-r\
emnants-of-a-lost-civilization/

Buddhist antiquities from Peruvaje:

http://www.bellevision.com/belle/index.php?action=topnews&type=3711

Controversy over a Khmer statue at Sotheby's:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-cambodia-antiquities-20120406,0,\
7358592.story
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/sothebys-retains-custody-of-cambodi\
an-statue/
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-cambodian-antiquity-201204\
05,0,1254428.story
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/arts/design/ancient-cambodian-statue-is-seized\
-from-sothebys.html

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Rethinking the casualty count in the Civil War:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17604991

A 19th century shipwreck in Lake Michigan near Grand Haven:

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120406/METRO/204060420/1361/Shipwreck-group\
-says-it-found-19th-century-schooner-near-Grand-Haven
http://www.npr.org/local/stories/Michigan-Radio/150143600
http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/ottawa_county/shipwreck-found-near-grand-ha\
ven
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/shipwreck-group-says-it-found-a-19th-cent\
ury-schooner-350-feet-down-in-western-michigan/2012/04/06/gIQAuLZ1zS_story.html

Feature on three centuries of scandal in New York City:

http://nymag.com/news/features/scandals/

================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Very old animal mounds from Peru:

http://www.livescience.com/19372-animal-mounds-peru-nazca.html
http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/benfer329/
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00239.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/uom-ram032912.php
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-rare-animal-shaped-mounds-peru.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120329112209.htm

Burials from Cholula with artifacts from various periods:

http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/247-historia/5800-hallan-entierro-mul\
tiple-en-cholula-de-hace-800-anos

A Moche altar from Peru:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2012/04/04/1500-year-old-altar-for-hu\
man-sacrifices-found-in-peru/
http://elcomercio.pe/peru/1396516/noticia-descubren-altar-sacrificios-humanos-cu\
ltura-moche

Scientists have confirmed the source of Maya Blue (didn't we hear of
this a while ago?):

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-04-discovery-evidence-pre-columbian-sources-may\
a.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/fm-dot040212.php
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/04/2012/maya-blue-source-confir\
med

Penn Museum posted a video of Loa Traxler's talk on Maya human
sacrifice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGWZY8Q8bA8&feature=uploademail

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Audio news from the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews25mar12.mp3  (last
week's)
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews1apr12.mp3

A call for 'standards' when determining whether bones are marked by tools
or animals:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-analytical-standards-pliocene-bones.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/iu-asn040412.php

More on that Napoleon theme park:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17397172

Newton's life as a KML thing (never seen one of these myself):

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/26/sir_isaac_newtown_kml/

'Interesting' eighteenth century map of northern Europe:

http://io9.com/5899754/a-1793-map-of-england-firing-a-tsunami-of-poop-at-revolut\
ionary-france

Medieval warming was global, according to the latest study:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/23/warm_period_little_ice_age_global/

The genetics of Van Gogh's sunflowers:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-scientists-reveal-genetic-mutation-depicted.\
html
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/sunflower-mutants-van-gogh/

The Louvre revealed its restoration of DaVinci's St Anne:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9172975/Louvre-uncovers-restorat\
ion-of-Leonardo-da-Vincis-last-work-Saint-Anne.html
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/controversial-leonardo-restoration-\
to-be-unveiled-in-major-louvre-show/

Pondering Botticelli's Birth of Venus:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/mar/28/botticelli-\
birth-of-venus-ancient-religion

A study for Cezanne's Card Players series has turned up:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/arts/design/a-card-player-a-cezanne-watercolor\
-for-sale-by-christies.html


They've confirmed Rembrandt's Old Rabbi is one of a pair:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/mar/28/rembrandt-old-rabbi-painting-\
authenticated

If it's Easter, there has to be something on the Shroud in the news:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2121149/New-Turin-Shroud-theory-claims-C\
hrist-did-NOT-rise-dead.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/05/shroud-of-turin-thomas-de-wesselow-birt\
h-of-christianity_n_1405565.html
http://www.livescience.com/19522-shroud-turin-spread-christianity.html

... but rather new to the season is the Vatican and Israel arguing over he
site of the
Last Supper:

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/05/150016572/vatican-israel-spar-over-disputed-last-s\
upper-site

The story of English in a hundred words (reviewish):

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/02/149849559/linguist-tells-the-story-of-english-in-1\
00-words

Pondering Macchiavelli (two parts):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/mar/26/machiavelli-prince-po\
wer-good-evil
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/apr/02/machiavelli-humanism-\
history-prince

Did lead poisoning kill Handel?:

http://galvestondailynews.com/story/303958

Interesting study of Bedouin animal sacrifice rituals:

http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/bedouin-animal-sacrifice-rituals-provide-cl\
ues-to-archaeological-remains-133733.htm

All cattle can be traced back -- dna wise -- to a herd in Iran some 10 500
years b.p.:

http://phys.org/news/2012-03-dna-cattle-small-herd-domesticated.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/ucl-dtc032712.php


On why temperature affects the taste of things for us humans:

http://www.livescience.com/19288-room-temperature-coffee-taste.html

Rethinking the Neolithic Revolution:

http://phys.org/news/2012-03-foraging-farming-year-revolution.html

High tech photography may have revealed Shakespeare's signature:

http://news.discovery.com/history/shakespeare-signature-tech-120403.html
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/50-megapixel-digital-imaging-system-\
uncovers-shakespeare-signature.ars

Feature on execution in the Ottoman Empire:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/03/the-ottoman-empires-life-death-r\
ace/

The Earths' wobble may have ended the last Ice Age:

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/05/150000446/shake-it-off-earth-s-wobble-may-have-end\
ed-ice-age


Feature on finding sites with Google Earth:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2012/googling-the-past-how-i\
-uncovered-prehistoric-remains-from-my-office

... which seems related to this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17436400

Ten 'most sacred' spots:

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2012/04/08/10-most-sacred-spots-on-earth/

The National Archives found some Nazi loot:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/national-archives-announces-discove\
ry-of-nazi-looted-art-volumes/

Review of Paul B. Israel et al (eds.), *The Papers of Thomas A. Edison*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/the-seventh-volume-of-thomas-edis\
ons-papers.html

Review of Tom Holland, *In the Shadow of the Sword*:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/historybookreviews/9174113/In-the-Shado\
w-of-the-Sword-by-Tom-Holland-review.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/30/fall-roman-empire-rise-islam
http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/blog/7765973/interview-tom-hollandon-the-origin\
s-of-islam.thtml

Review of Kathryn Harrison, *Enchantments*:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/25/RVTP1NNMT6.DTL

Review of Jennifer duBois, *A Partial History of Lost Causes* (fiction):

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/25/RV131N66H2.DTL

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Semi-touristy thing on Empuries:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2012/03/29/empuries-the-ancient-greek-town-of-spain/

Turkey:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2012/mar/23/turkey-unusual-tourist-sights
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A Belgian art dealer convicted of smuggling has died while under
house arrest in Beijing:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/belgian-man-convicted-of-art-sm\
uggling-dies-in-beijing-while-under-house-arrest/2012/03/30/gIQAHLvlkS_story.htm\
l
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17561107

Major theft of some Chinese artifacts from Durham University's
Oriental Museum:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/04/07/international/i02425\
5D32.DTL&tsp=1
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/british-police-say-chinese-artifacts-\
worth-32-million-stolen-from-uk-museum/2012/04/07/gIQAYSYM1S_story.html

China and Mexico are cooperating in regards to dealing with smuggling:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=488759&CategoryId=14091

A purloined sarcophagus from Turkey turns up in Switzerland:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/swiss-customs-seize-roman-sarcophagus-stolen-fr\
om-turkey.aspx?pageID=238&nID=16998&NewsCatID=375

Vandalism at Priddy Circles:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-17614600

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Roman coins from Ripley:

http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/Treasure-hunter-uncovers-coins-Ripley-dating/s\
tory-15703408-detail/story.html

Roman coins from Bath:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-17480016
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/27/hoard-roman-coins-found-in-england/

Celtic hoard from Switzerland:

http://bazonline.ch/basel/gemeinden/Archaeologen-finden-Schatz-in-Fuellinsdorf/s\
tory/24533898(Germany)

Latest eSylums:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n13.html (Mar 25)
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n14.html (April 1)
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n15.html (later today)

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
I think every local paper mentioned something about Google's Art Project, so
it's easier just to link to the project itself:

http://www.googleartproject.com/

Egyptian Antiquities at Dartmouth:

http://thedartmouth.com/2012/04/02/arts/egypt

Utopian Impulse:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/arts/design/r-buckminster-fullers-comeback-at-\
a-san-francisco-museum.html

Colorful Realm:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/arts/design/colorful-realm-works-by-ito-jakuch\
u-at-national-gallery.html

Faux Real:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/prolific-forger-gets-an-exhibition-\
with-his-name-attached/

Aphrodite and the Gods of Love:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54445
http://usa.greekreporter.com/2012/04/01/aphrodite-and-the-gods-of-love-exhibitio\
n-at-the-getty-villa-museum/
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2012/03/art-review-aphrodite-and-\
the-gods-of-love-at-the-getty-villa.html

Rembrandt at Work:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/arts/design/rembrandt-at-work-at-metropolitan-\
museum.html

Nuestra Senora de Begona:

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/30825272/detail.html

Zucker Holy Land Travel Manuscript (can't decide where to put this one):

http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/zucker/
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/zucker/intro.cfm
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/zucker/pages/index_zucker.cfm?so_id=18004&pagepos\
ition=1&level=3&rotate=0(online
version)

8000 years b.p. footprints:

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-276108-8000-year-old-footprints-to-be-displayed-\
at-istanbul-museum.html
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/zucker/mapplan.cfm (maps)

Turkey's asking a number of US museums to return things they believed
were illegally excavated:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-turkey-antiquities-20120331,0,46\
73943.story
http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2012/04/02/turkey-targeting-r\
eturn-of-antiquities-in-cleveland-museum-of-arts-collection
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/02/turkey-steps-up-demands-for-antiqui\
ties-in-u-s-museums/

A judge has ruled the SLAM can keep its mummy mask:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54592

Major stamp collection coming to auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/nyregion/frelinghuysen-familys-rare-stamp-coll\
ection-goes-to-auction.html

Drouot art sale:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/31/arts/31iht-melikian31.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
New season of Game of Thrones:

http://tv.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/arts/television/game-of-thrones-on-hbo.html

Deidamia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/arts/28iht-loomis28.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Ross Kilpatrick:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/from-vergil-to-winnie-the-pooh-ross\
-kilpatrick-had-wide-ranging-interests/article2381034/

Hilton Kramer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/arts/design/hilton-kramer-critic-who-champione\
d-modernism-dies-at-84.html
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Teamwork apparently gave humans bigger brains:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-teamwork-brainier-scientists.html

More on use of fire a million years b.p.:

http://news.yahoo.com/study-ancestors-used-fire-million-years-ago-190741815.html
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AFRICA
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PhysOrg’s search for the oldest decorated eggs took them
to South Africa:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-egg-cetera-world-oldest-eggs.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Interesting coverage of a cat mummy radiograph:

http://news.discovery.com/history/kitten-mummy-egypt-sacrifice-baby-ancient-1204\
13.html
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/04/13/mummified-kitten-served-as-egyptian-of\
fering/
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-robotic-cats-kitten-mummy-major.html

Feature on Israel’s ‘other temple’:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-827144.html

Feature on the excavations at Tel Kedesh:

http://www.archaeology.org/1205/features/tel_kedesh.html

Interesting feature on Twins Cave:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-cave-was-seen-as-porthole-to-roman-\
underworld-researchers-say-1.423472

Plans to inspect the looted El Hibeh site:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/38989/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Archae\
ological-committee-to-inspect-the-looted-ElH.aspx

Concerns for sites in the Kidron Valley:

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=266047

Plans to excavate in Doha:

http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/qatar/190014-archaeologists-plan-to-uncover-dohas-p\
ast.html

Honours for Eric Cline:

http://gwtoday.gwu.edu/people/awardwinningresearchandteaching

Interview with Mark Goodacre and Eric Meyer about the Talpiot Tomb B:

http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/q-mark-goodacre-and-eric-meyers

… and some of the press coverage about the documentary:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/filmmaker-says-jerusalem-tomb-hous\
es-some-of-jesuss-earliest-followers/2012/04/05/gIQAjCioxS_story.html
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/ancient-ossuary-hints-at-earliest-refe\
rence-to-resurrection-of-jesus/article2399269/
http://news.msn.co.nz/worldnews/8449717/coffin-depicts-jesus-resurrection
http://abcnews.go.com/International/jesus-tomb-controversy-rages-archeologists-e\
xplore-2000-year/story?id=16111993

Ka-Nefer-Nefer’s mask is going on display at the SLAM:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1093/heritage.htm

Plans for a really comprehensive historical Hebrew dictionary:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/1.423490

More on Bedoin sacrificial rituals shedding light on the ancient:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_new=54628&int_sec=2

Review of Elaine Pagels, *Revelations*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/books/review/revelations-by-elaine-pagels.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Greek and Byzantine finds from Alexandria:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/41/39166/Heritage/GrecoRoman/Greek-and\
-Byzantineera-tomb-discoveries-in-Alexand.aspx

Santorini is (finally) reopening for tourists:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite4_1_11/04/2012_437527
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/bronze-age-town-on-greek-island-of-sa\
ntorini-to-reopen-7-years-after-fatal-roof-collapse/2012/04/10/gIQAwIve8S_story.\
html
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/life/environment/2012/04/13/337688/Ancient-Greek.htm

Funding for Hadrian’s Wall:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-17669732

Feature on Epiacum:

http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2012/04/13/epiacum-a-hi\
dden-slice-of-roman-history-at-slaggyford-61634-30748979/

Slideshow of recent Roman and Iron Age finds from a Cambridge
dig:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Slideshow-Roman-and-Iron-Age-finds-at-colle\
ge-13042012.htm

OpEd on Roman anti-semitism:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11517#.T4qb3NlmPDM

What Thomas Winter is up to:

http://www.dailynebraskan.com/news/classics-professor-keeps-young-as-avid-skater\
-internet-sensation-1.2728560

Hype for Mary Beard’s ‘Meet the Romans’:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/How-Joe-Bloggs-fared-in-the-Roman-Empire-12\
042012.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSB-kRfyWD4

… and Classics Confidential interviewed Dr Beard:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-ASBFU8ivg

Hype for Bettany Hughes’ ‘Divine Women’:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9200436/Divine-journey-with-the-Ni\
gella-of-Antiquity.html

Honours for Joshua Katz:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2012/04/11/30576/

Daniel Mendelsohn takes an Odyssey cruise:

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/travel_leisure/2012/04/odyssey_cruise_daniel_\
mendelsohn_takes_odysseus_journey_.html

Ben Hur Bloopers (of the cinematic variety):

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-hur-bloopers-can-you-784963

More coverage of the expulsion of the Centurions from
the Colosseum and their subsequent protests (this is obviously
the big news of the week):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9204441/Centurions-kicked\
-out-of-the-Colosseum.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/07/gladiator-protest-colosseum-rome_n_1410\
192.html
http://www.timescolonist.com/travel/Colosseum+battle+pits+Rome+police+against+ce\
nturions/6459673/story.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0413/breaking8.html
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/04/12/Rome-Police-battle-gladiators/\
UPI-37441334267413/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/12/roman-centurions-scuffle-police-colo\
sseum
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/police_costumed_centurions_clash_Pprp\
TwIcw0Wiy8zYAxZEHJ
http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/CultureAndMedia/Italy-Centurions-occupy\
-Colosseum-to-protest-expulsion_313194786838.html

… and some video:

http://video.corriere.it/rissa-centurioni-vigili-al-colosseo/9130298a-84a5-11e1-\
8bd9-25a08dbe0046
http://video.corriere.it/blitz-vigili-colosseo-30-centurioni-diffidati/d7a88e2c-\
7e54-11e1-b61a-22df94744509
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ADoDI0osao
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCLF9pgGpKk

Review of Lynda Wordwell (ed)., *The Fusion of Neo - Classical Principles*:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2012/0414/1224314714445.html

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
The Trefael Stone is actually the capstone of a 5500 years b.p. tomb:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-archaeologists-rewrite-history-trefael-stone.html

Runes on a second century comb:

http://www.thelocal.de/national/20120413-41929.html

Some Luddite revisionism:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-rage-machine.html

The Wiltshire White Horse is getting a cleaning:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-17714006

Some bodies dug up a couple decades ago at Eynsham Abbey
are going to be reburied:

http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/9648915.Abbey_remains_to_get_proper_buri\
al/r/

Plans to dig a 4th-2nd millenium site in Yerevan:

http://groong.usc.edu/news/msg417910.html

Some idiots graffitied a medieval building in York:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-17700654

That ‘witch’s cottage’ from Pendle is to be reburied to prevent
damage:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-17667277

Hype for a history conference in Iona:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17676549

Neil MacGregor comments on a Drake Circumnavigation medal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB8EZYzOKgs&feature=uploademail

Debating whether the Celts occupied Ireland:

http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/local/history-proved-wrong-castle-debate-says-\
nay-to-celts-1-3726999

More on skeletons from Oxford possibly being remains of Viking raiders:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-skeletons-oxford-10th-century-viking-raiders.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Gleaning historical information from Chinese surnames:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-surname-explores-evolution-reveals-china.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/w-wia041312.php

Interesting feature on oracle bones:

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2012-04/05/content_14983122.htm

Remains of a Zhukiatai culture dyke from Henan:

http://english.people.com.cn/90782/7786433.html

Harappan artifacts from Haryana:

http://www.indiatalkies.com/2012/04/harappan-relics-haryana-village.html

A probable Buddhist monastery wall find:

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=230249

Recent finds from Taxila:

http://dawn.com/2012/04/09/more-antiquities-discovered-in-taxila-2/

Plans to dive/excavate the Clarence near St Leonards (Australia):

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-shipwreck-history.html
http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2012/04/12/319311_news.html

More coverage of that disputed Cambodian statue which is up for
auction:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/sothebys-retains-custody-of-cambodi\
an-statue/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/arts/design/ancient-cambodian-statue-is-seized\
-from-sothebys.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g6cifon5-UGS9-OhroU0B13ObgHw?\
docId=CNG.b9db698686022e61c12be4e24e911e29.231
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/usa/US-Government-Sothebys-Battle-over-Ancie\
nt-Khmer-Warrior-Statue----147199195.html

More on that skeleton from Taiwan:

http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=198157

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Feature on a dig at the Donner Party camp site:

http://www.archaeology.org/1205/letter/donner_party_alder_creek_washoe.html

Possible Native American burial site from Oklahoma:

http://www.ktul.com/story/17375013/human-bones-discovered-in

Another mining company v. First Nations dispute, this time in Montana:

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/a-sacred-peak-with-rich-ore-deposits/

Interesting feature on identifying a hitherto unknown Civil War soldier:

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/11/150288978/unknown-no-more-identifying-a-civil-war-\
soldier


Scans are finding shipwrecks at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka:

http://www.startribune.com/local/147405865.html

There’s a new state archaeologist in Georgia:

http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2012-04-12/story/georgia-gets-new-state-arc\
heologist

Feature on the Boettcher Mansion:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/garden/when-governors-refuse-the-mansions.html

Feature on a 19th century Alutiiq kayak:

http://newsminer.com/view/full_story/18212674/article-1860-Alutiiq-kayak-holds-c\
lues-to-an-Alaskan-culture

More on that shipwreck off Grand Haven:

http://www.grandhaventribune.com/content/divers-believe-theyve-discovered-schoon\
er-missing-138-years

Review of Jonathan Sarna, *When General Grant Expelled the Jews*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/books/when-general-grant-expelled-the-jews-by-\
jonathan-d-sarna.html

Review of assorted tomes on Lincoln:

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/10/149871122/best-books-and-surprising-insights-on-li\
ncoln
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Remains of 13th century Lambayeque priestesses from Peru:

http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/notitas-de-noticias/details/remains-of-p\
riestess-of-the-13th-century-lambayeque-culture-found-in-peru/15191/

Evidence of 800 years b.p. sustainable farming in the
Amazonian savannas of French Guiana:

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00254.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-year-old-farmers-amazon.html

Interesting feature on the ‘Big Bird’ mummy bundle:

http://www.cipstudies.org/wallace.htm

More on animal mounds from Peru:

http://www.3news.co.nz/Ancient-animals-hidden-in-plain-sight/tabid/1160/articleI\
D/249996/Default.aspx

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Audio News from the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews8apr12.mp3

Not sure where to put this one … George Washington has been
named as Britain’s greatest foe:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9204961/George-Washington-named-Britains-grea\
test-ever-foe.html

The Vatican and Oxford libraries announced a project to digtize a pile of
manuscripts:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-vatican-oxford-libraries-joint-digital.html
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/04/13/4411450/vatican-and-oxford-libraries-announce.h\
tml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-17687947

Darwin’s daughter’s journal is rather interesting:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-unpublished-journal-darwin-daughter.html

Feature on assorted cathedrals:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17627040

17th century cooking by science:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-egg-cetera-eggs-fifteen-whites.html

Marking the Titanic anniversary (these vary in focus):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/post/robert-ballard-man-of-t\
he-hour-for-titanic-100th-anniversary/2012/04/11/gIQARYQ5AT_blog.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/science/a-new-look-at-natures-role-in-the-tita\
nics-sinking.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/science/beating-the-odds-to-survive-the-titani\
cs-sinking.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/fashion/on-the-titanic-defined-by-what-they-wo\
re.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/arts/design/titanic-at-100-at-south-street-sea\
port-museum.html
http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/worlds-most-famous-shipwreck-turns-100_2012-0\
4-14.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/books/review/new-books-about-the-titanic-and-i\
ts-passengers.html

… and there is evidence (apparently) of human remains at the
site still:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/officials-human-remains-titanic-shipwreck-sit\
e-16141850

… and UNESCO put out a video on the current condition of the wreck:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLCkn2ifmWg

… and also ‘protected’ the Titanic:

http://news.discovery.com/history/titanic-unesco-120410.html

A painting has been identified as a possible El Greco:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/arts/design/muscarelle-museum-scholar-identifi\
es-an-el-greco-work.html

This year’s Guggenheim Fellows:

http://www.gf.org/news-events/2012-Fellows-by-field-in-the-United-States-and-Can\
ada/

On writing a terrible dissertation:

http://chronicle.com/article/My-Terrible-Horrible-No/131438/

On how Shakespeare sounded:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/03/24/149160526/shakespeares-accent-how-\
did-the-bard-really-sound

More on the Prado’s copy of the Mona Lisa:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/14/world/europe/prado-researcher-finds-insights-b\
eneath-copy-of-mona-lisa.html

More on daVinci’s Ste Anne:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/07/arts/07iht-melikian07.html

More on the Google Art Project:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/arts/design/google-art-projects-expanded-offer\
ings.html

Review of Paul Kindstedt, *Cheese and Culture*:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/cheese-and-culture-a-history-o\
f-cheese-and-its-place-in-western-civilization-by-paul-s-kindstedt/2012/04/13/gI\
QA7BfxFT_story.html
http://www.7dvt.com/2012cultured-read

Review of Catalin Avramescu, *An Intellectual History of Cannibalism*:

http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/18900540016/people-who-eat-people
Review of Sadakat Kidri, *Heaven on Earth*:

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/10/150005101/heaven-a-hilarious-yes-really-history-of\
-shariah

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Morocco’s Roman Ruins:

http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2012/4/14/lifetravel/11082099&se\
c=lifetravel
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BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Arrests in that theft of Chinese artifacts from a Durham Museum:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/08/theft-chinese-artefacts-durham-museum

… and they’ve recovered the purloined artifacts:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54770
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/15/chinese-treasures-durham-heist-found

A stolen Cezanne was also recovered this week:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/apr/12/paul-cezanne-masterpiece-reco\
vered-serbian-police

Some stolen relics associated with John the Baptist were returned:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=138458

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A Viking horde from Gotland:

http://www.thelocal.se/40206/20120411/

Latest ‘Rome on the Danube’ coin:

http://news.coinupdate.com/latest-rome-on-the-danube-silver-coin-features-lauria\
cum-1312/

Hype for a Roman coin exhibition at Smith College:

http://www.smith.edu/video/celebrating-collaborations-2012

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n15.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n16.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
John Constable:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/nyregion/a-review-of-john-constable-oil-sketch\
es-from-the-victoria-and-albert-museum.html

Rembrandt at Work:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/arts/design/rembrandt-at-work-at-metropolitan-\
museum.html

Sorolla:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/arts/12iht-sorolla12.html

Byzantium and Islam:

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/11/150349190/at-the-met-a-middle-east-transition-cent\
uries-ago

Dawn of Egyptian Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/arts/design/the-dawn-of-egyptian-art-at-the-me\
tropolitan-museum.html

Egyptian Museum of Barcelona:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/44/38812/Heritage/Museums/Ancient-Egyp\
tian-beauty-exhibited-at-the-Egyptian-.aspx

Titian’s Diana and Actaeon is going on display:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54744

Hype for Christie’s upcoming antiquities auction:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2012/04/11/ancient-greek-jewels-to-be-auctioned-at-c\
hristies-in-london/
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54685

Turkey wants the Samsat Stele to be returned from the British
Museum:

http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=88346
The Louvre teamed up with Nintendo for a guide’book’:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/louvre-teams-up-with-nintendo-on-ne\
w-guides/

Review of the Met’s new guidebook:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/arts/design/metropolitan-museum-of-arts-new-gu\
idebook.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
La Mouette de Portici:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/arts/11iht-loomis11.html

On the revival of the guqin in Chinese performance:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/arts/12iht-guqin12.html

Talking like an opera geek:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/04/11/150420827/talk-like-an-oper\
a-geek-how-verdi-wagner-and-puccini-got-their-grooves

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal

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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Trevor Hodge:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/carleton-professor-had-a-classic-ca\
se-of-inquiring-mind/article2396680/

Charles Lockwood:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/02/arts/design/charles-lockwood-architectural-his\
torian-dies-at-63.html

Kenneth Libo:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/books/kenneth-libo-historian-of-jewish-immigra\
tion-dies-at-74.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Still arguing about Mrs Ples:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/04/mrs-ples-a-hominid-with-an-iden\
tity-crisis/

Pondering the origins of music:

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/04/did-humans-invent-music\
/255945/

Meat eating was apparently good for early humans:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-meat-earlier-weaning-humans-globe.html

What chimpanzee ground nests tell us about early humans:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-chimpanzee-ground-insight-ancestors-descent.html
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AFRICA
================================================================
Austria returned some human remains to South Africa:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-austria-safrican-indigenous-people.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A clumsy visiting Egyptologist found some missing bits
of the Book of the Dead in Australia:

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/ancient-manuscript-found-in-brisbane-\
20120420-1xc5l.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rare-egyptian-scrolls-found-australia-collection-065458\
457.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iPk7XSb6KJO3dJgjp46_dUMCvp_Q?\
docId=CNG.965b6d49d6a70f298d41b90874111367.641
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/books/its-the-mummy-of-all-discoveries/stor\
y-fn9412vp-1226334861179
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-rare-egyptian-scrolls-australian.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2132755/Last-pages-magical-Egypti\
an-Book-Dead-museum-Queensland--worldwide-search-archaeologists.html?ito=feeds-n\
ewsxml

Quarrying near Aswan threatens petroglyphs:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/quarrying-upper-egypt-endangers-paleolithic\
-rock-art

A scarab find in Jerusalem:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=3847

Recent finds at Gath:

http://gath.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/some-nice-pictures-of-iron-i-and-lb-pottery\
/

A preliminary report from Khirbat Qeiyafa (Elah Fortress):

http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/report_detail_eng.asp?id=1989

Plans to restore La Description de l’Egypte:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/39656/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/La-Des\
cription-de-L%E2%80%99Egypte-to-be-restored.aspx

Qatar and the DAI have a new agreement:

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=500330&version\
=1&template_id=57&parent_id=56

The latest ‘turn’ in the ‘Jonah ossuary’ claim:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/uonc-hia041812.php
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-hebrew-inscription-jonah-christian-ancient.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47117296/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.livescience.com/19806-hebrew-inscription-jonah-ossuary.html

… and the reaction:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47124510/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.livescience.com/19830-christian-ossuary-random-squiggles.html

Studying Jewish DNA:

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Chosen-Genes/131481/

Feature on Adam Zertal and his work over the past decades:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=3848

OpEd on Turkey’s recent demand for item returns:

http://www.eurasianet.org/node/65272

Pondering the ‘demise’ of Biblical minimalism:

http://www.bib-arch.org/scholars-study/minimalist-response.asp

… and the Qeiyafa Ostracon:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=38&Issue=03&ArticleID=\
04&Page=1&UserID=0&

A bill currently in front of the Knesset would put ex soldiers on
archaeological
digs:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4216024,00.html

Feature (in French) on conservation efforts at Minet el Hosn:

http://libnanews.com/2012/04/02/les-archeologues-locaux-et-internationaux-catego\
riques-les-cales-pheniciennes-de-minet-el-hosn-a-conserver-a-tout-prix-video/

Review(ish) thing of the latest volume of Eretz Israel:

http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=264823

More coverage of the outcome of the Oded Golan trial:

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/04/20/3093401/israeli-judge-says-antiquity-\
inscriptions-werent-forged
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Plenty of coverage over a claim of an identification of a statue as
being a female gladiator/gladiatrix:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/04/120419-female-gladiator-statue-t\
opless-science-ancient-rome/
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/04/18/rare-ancient-statue-depicts-topless-fe\
male-gladiator/
http://www.livescience.com/19729-female-gladiator-statue-rome.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47088229/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2131949/The-Gladiatrix-Rare-statu\
e-shows-topless-female-gladiator-standing-triumphant-defeated-foe.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/18/rare-bronze-statue-of-top_n_1435121.htm\
l
http://news.yahoo.com/rare-ancient-statue-depicts-topless-female-gladiator-11240\
8435.html

… but cf:

Very interesting find of what appears to be a statue of Cleopatra’s
twin kiddies:

http://news.discovery.com/history/cleopatras-twin-babies-120420.html
http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2012/04/20/Italian-finds-sculptu\
re-Antony-Cleopatra-twins_6752091.html
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2012/04/20/Italian-\
finds-sculpture-Antony-Cleopatra-twins_6752119.html

Some more of the Palladion was unearthed in Athens:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/04/17/ancient-greek-murder-court-found-in-a\
thens/

Archaeologists are seeking a halt to church construction until
a Roman fort can be checked out in Yorkshire:

http://www.ilkleygazette.co.uk/news/news_local/9657997.Call_for__delay_on_church\
_site_plan/

Moles are digging up Roman artifacts at Epiacum:

http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2012/04/21/roman-artefa\
cts-at-epiacum-churned-up-by-moles-61634-30806040/

Confirmation (of sorts) of a tsunami hitting Potidaea in 479 B.C.:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-ancient-greek-tsunami.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47107517/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/2787-ancient-wave-real-tsunami.html

Nice feature on a Roman military diploma at the
Israel Museum:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-a-bronze-inscription-a-remnant-of-roman-might/

CWR University celebrated Vergil Week:

http://cwru-daily.com/news/?p=7017

There was a marathon reading of the Iliad at Bowdoin:
http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/009408.shtml

Honours for Judith Lynn Sebesta:

http://www.yankton.net/articles/2012/04/19/community/doc4f8f89110d4f4875774233.t\
xt

Mary Beard had a big presence this week … being interviewed:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/21/professor-mary-beard-saturday-interv\
iew

… writing about ‘pushy parents’ in ancient Rome:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17701080

… and Rome’s desperate housewives or lack thereof:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2133010/Romes-desperate-housewives-For\
get-orgies-eating-incest-Mrs-Average-Caesars-reign-just-like-x-rated.html

… and her favourite parts of Rome:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/italy/rome/9216363/Rome-an\
cient-life-in-a-modern-city.html

… and there were reviews of her ‘Meet the Romans’:

http://www.shropshirestar.com/entertainment/telly-talk/2012/04/18/meet-the-roman\
s-with-mary-beard-tv-review/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9210111/Meet-the-Romans-BBC-Two-re\
view.html

The Greek kiln at UA was fired up again:

http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/041912_greek_kiln/ua-group-fire-up-kil\
n-re-create-ancient-greek-pottery/

I think we mentioned Daniel Mendelsohn and his father’s ‘odyssey’ trip last
week:

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/15/150629440/a-father-and-son-go-on-their-last-odysse\
y-together

Some town in Turkey has actually trademarked Veni, Vidi, Vici:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/veni-vidi-vici-patented-in-turkey.aspx?pageID=2\
38&nID=18472&NewsCatID=341

*The Swerve* won a Pulitzer:

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/books/pulitzer-prizes-announced-no-fiction-\
award-1.3664641
http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2012-General-Nonfiction
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/No-fiction-Pulitzer-given-for-1st-time-in-\
35-years-3485760.php
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/4/17/pulitzer-greenblatt-2012/

Hype for the Homer Encyclopedia;

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/afot-fhe041712.php

We’re hearing about Roman theme parks again:

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/million+ancient+Rome+theme+park+planned+Rome/6\
488881/story.html
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=500162&version\
=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16

The Olympias won’t be at the Olympics (so far):

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6d3c20c6-8980-11e1-85b6-00144feab49a.html#axzz1sQPJjsG\
T

Feature on the Romosexuality conference:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=419679&\
c=1

Review of Christian Cameron, *God of War* [novel]:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/god-of-war-by-christian-cameron/a\
rticle2403728/

Review of Susan Allen, *Classical Spies*:

http://www.athensnews.gr/issue/13491/54859

Review(ish) of Rebecca Jones, *Roman Camps in Scotland*:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/arts/a-new-book-challenges-the-myth-that-scotland-w\
as-never-conquered-by-the-romans-1-2236252http://www.scotsman.com/news/arts/a-ne\
w-book-challenges-the-myth-that-scotland-was-never-conquered-by-the-romans-1-223\
6252
http://www.berwickshirenews.co.uk/news/local-headlines/legacy-of-the-romans-fail\
ed-conquest-1-2227947

More on revolting gladiators:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/20/italy-gladiators-up-in-arms?\
newsfeed=true

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Arguing about Ale’s Stones (Sweden):

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/04/19/swedish-stonehenge-ancient-stone-struc\
ture-spurs-debate/

Excavating one of the earliest farming sites in Europe (Albania):

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-uc-reveals-earliest-farming-sites.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120416113013.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/uoc-rro041612.php

The acoustics of Stonehenge:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17754949

Time Team finds assorted items from assorted
periods at a site in Cardiff:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2012/04/21/91466-30804706/

They’re excavating the 16th century defenses of Leith:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/arts/ancient-defences-of-leith-unearthed-1-2245552

A medieval grave of an abbot at Furness Abbey turns out
to be rather more interesting than expected:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/apr/19/furness-abbey-grave-medieval-abbot

A metal detectorist found a bronze age axe handle in
Flintshire:

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/need_to_read/2012/04/20/wrexham-butcher-finds-tr\
easure-in-treuddyn-55578-30798988/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-17767303
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/spectacular-ecclesias\
tical-treasures-discovered-in-ruins-of-a-medieval-abbey-in-cumbria-7657875.html

Plans to put a 13th century shipwreck (or two) in a ‘metal cave’ to
protect it:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/04/19/shipwrecks-in-rhodes-and-zakynthos-be\
ing-protected-from-natural-decay/

Video feature on the Cornish Bronze Age Boat project
and the Nebra Sky disk:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17775009

Neil MacGregor talks about Henry V’s armour:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfDCmYtgy1E&feature=uploademail

A Bronze Age necklace has returned to Cornwall:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-17745523

The British Library has purchased  the St Cuthbert Gospel:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/17/british-library-buys-gospel
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17732310

An Anglo-Saxon collection/’haul’ wins an award:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-17752500

Seeking to bring a Viking horde back to Furness:

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/appeal-launched-to-save-furness-viking-hoard-1.945\
047?referrerPath=home

Britain destroyed records of assorted Colonial crimes, but
some survived:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/17/britain-destroyed-records-of-colonial-crim\
es/#.T47Dc-FO1Xo.email

Checking out the DNA of the Scots (spin is slightly different
in these):

http://www.scotsman.com/news/arts/scotland-s-dna-descended-from-lost-tribes-and-\
related-to-napoleon-1-2238030
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/conservation/9211247/DNA-reveals-th\
e-truth-about-Bonnie-Prince-Charlie.html

Italy is going the sponsorship route to save cultural treasures:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,828256,00.html

Damage to Priddy Stone Circle:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-17771005

More on the Trefael Stone:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-archaeologists-rewrite-history-trefael-stone.html

More on Oxford Viking skeletons:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-skeletons-oxford-10th-century-viking-raiders.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Harappan remains in Gujarat:

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsindex.php?id=659549

4000 years b.p. ‘cliff drawings’ from China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous
Region:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-04/22/c_131543881.htm

Excavating some 9th century Buddhist artifacts from a village
in Cuttack district:

http://expressbuzz.com/states/orissa/historians-dig-out-9th-century-buddhist-rel\
ics/384060.html

Arguing about surveying/investigating Adam’s Bridge have resumed:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120419/jsp/nation/story_15392818.jsp#.T5PsZtl52RJ

An 1800 years b.p. ‘tomb cluster’ from Jiangxi:

http://www.mysinchew.com/node/72603


I think we mentioned this 3000 Buddha find last week … here are
some photos:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/04/pictures/120417-3000-ancient-bud\
dhas-china-world-science/

More on Chinese surnames:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120413101115.htm

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
A possible pre-Clovis site at Lamb Springs near Denver:

http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_20384186/denver-area-archaelogical-di\
g-could-rewrite-human-history

Possible evidence of early ritual at the Crowfield site (near Strathroy):

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2012/04/15/paleo-indian-site-mig\
ht-demonstrate-early-ritual.html
http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.ca/2012/04/paleoindian-ceremonies.html

Brown University has discovered a rare print by Paul Revere:

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/15/150630478/lost-and-found-rare-paul-revere-print-re\
discovered

Wondering whether a stovepipe hat really belonged to Lincoln:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/11867891-418/was-famous-stovepipe-hat-really-\
abe-lincolns.html

OpEddish thing on the ongoing question of ownership of Native American
bones:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=who-owns-the-past

Review of Richard Zacks, *Island of Vice*:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/08/RV061N885D.DTL
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Burial of a Sican princess at at the Chotuna-Chornancap site:

http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/notitas-de-noticias/details/remains-of-p\
riestess-of-the-13th-century-lambayeque-culture-found-in-peru/15191/

Pondering whether Naymlap was a real person:

http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/archaeologist-sets-out-to-validate-230460.aspx

Feature on Haiti’s Sans-Souci Palace:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17567230

Penn Museum video in which Dr Loa Traxler talks about
tunnels at Copan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSiNCmsaeLQ&feature=uploademail

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Audio News from the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews8apr12.mp3

Archaeonews podcast:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/04/2012/archaeo-news-podcast-20\
9

This month’s video news from the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

The fish that almost sank Isaac Newton:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-revealed-fish-sank-isaac-newton.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/revealed-fish-nearly-sank-isaac-newton-220835477.html

Studying human tissue to figure out epidemics of the past:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/asking-old-human-tissue-to\
-answer-new-scientific-questions/2012/04/16/gIQA2MCEMT_story.html

Looking at the dirt on medieval books:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/technique-offers-window-past-113720092.html

Tracing one’s ancestry back to the Stone Age:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17527318

Feature on the guy-who-owns-Hobby-Lobby’s massive collection of
Bible-related artifacts:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/13/hobby-shop-magnate-own-passion-is-massive-c\
ollection-bible-artifacts/

A Nazi-looted painting was returned to the heirs of its owner:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17765218

Nice Nature Video on DaVinci’s anatomical drawings in Windsor Castle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9xUL5Yi_8M&feature=uploademail

The ‘Stuff You Missed in History Class’ folks ponder who the real
Indiana Jones was:

http://podcasts.howstuffworks.com/hsw/podcasts/symhc/2012-04-16-symhc-real-india\
na-jones.mp3

More Pulitzer Prize stuff:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/arts/2012-pulitzer-prizes-for-letters-drama-an\
d-music.html

Latest on the did-Marco-Polo-really-go-to-China thing:

http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=119306&CultureCode=en

Review(ish) of Tom Holland, *In the Shadow of the Sword*:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100151556/a-historical-look-at-the-birt\
h-of-islam/

Review of David Crystal, *The Story of English in 100 Words*:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/08/RV1N1NSPRJ.DTL

Review of Sadakat Kadri, *Heaven on Earth*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/books/heaven-on-earth-by-sadakat-kadri.html

More on Darwin’s daughter’s diary:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-unpublished-journal-darwin-daughter.html

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Bettany Hughes’ Athens:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/greece/athens/9216669/Bett\
any-Hughess-Athens.html

Trier:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/travel/48-hours-in-trier-16145512.ht\
ml

Dougga:

http://www.tunisia-live.net/2012/04/15/the-timeless-city-of-dougga/
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BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n16.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n17.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Sanctuaries of Demeter and Persephone at Morgantina

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=54800

Joaquin Sorolla:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/arts/12iht-sorolla12.html

Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-18/mummies-unwrapped/3957826/?site=newcastle

Feature on the Vatican Museums:

http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/arts-entertainment/At-the-Vatican-So\
me-of-the-Worlds-Greatest-Art-147834365.html

Iraq’s National Museum has partially reopened (didn’t we have this
already?):

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-04/16/c_131530245.htm

Terracotta Warriors are coming to New York:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/chinese-terracotta-warriors-coming-\
to-new-york/

Check out our Twitter hashtag for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Clytemnestra:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2012/apr/16/clytemnestra-makeover-gwyneth-lewis

Anthonello:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/arts/music/anthonellos-asian-tinged-early-musi\
c-at-st-john-the-divine.html

Fetih 1453:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/12/turkish-fetih-1453

Musica Sacra:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/arts/music/orchestra-of-st-lukes-at-carnegie-h\
all.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, Bob Heumann, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell,
Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this
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EARLY HUMANS
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Evidence of Middle Paleolithic folk chowing down on elephants:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-inhabitants-madrid-ate-elephants-meat.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/f-sf-om042412.php

Early humans (specifically, homo erectus, it seems) were
more advanced than previously thought:

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/323827

Somewhat rambling thing on the hominid family tree:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2135612/Meet-ancestors--mean-cousins.h\
tml

Again on climate change and evolution:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-climate-human-evolution.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A Ramses III ‘slab’ was found at Karnak:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/Story.aspx?sid=61473

A ‘facelift’ for the temple of Hathor on Philae:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/40238/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Philae\
s-Hathor-temple-gets-facelift-in-advance-of-.aspx

A pile of different scans on a mummy revealed he suffered from
a very painful disease:

http://news.discovery.com/history/mummy-disease-120427.html
http://www.livescience.com/19944-egyptian-mummy-rare-disease.html

They keep finding mikvehs (and are drawing conclusions) at Galilee’s
Cliffs of Arbel:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-researcher-mikvehs-show-that-galile\
e-cave-dwellers-were-likely-kohanim-1.426773

On pipelines and antiquities in Iraq:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17702153

A reconstruction of Herod’s tomb was dedicated:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/237901

LandMinds interview with Omer Sergey about lamelekh jug handles and other
things:
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/files/LM-27March12a1.mp3

Lengthy LandMinds interview with Aren Maier about Tel es-Safi-Gat:

http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/files/LM-April2k12a.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/files/LM-April2k12b.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/files/LM-April2k12c.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/files/LM-April2k12d.mp3

… and the latest from the dig weblog:

http://gath.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/new-look-to-the-lab/

An interview with Eilat Mazar:

http://thejerusalemreport.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/the-key-to-davids-city/

Latest on the Mughrabi Bridge:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/155093

Last week we were pondering Chinese surnames … now we’re pondering
Yiddish:

http://forward.com/articles/154965/from-esperanza-to-shprintze/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Remains of a temple in Messinia:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/04/24/ancient-temple-discovered-in-messinia\
/

A very complete Roman shipwreck from off the shore of Trapani:

http://news.discovery.com/history/roman-shipwreck-smuggling-120425.html

An erotic vase find from Bulgaria (in various attempts at translation, it
seems):

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n276285
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2012/04/23/Ancient-erotic-vase-found-in-Bulgaria/UPI\
-46391335214710/
http://www.sofiaecho.com/2012/04/23/1813443_archaeology-greek-vase-depicting-ero\
tic-scene-found-in-bulgarias-sozopol
http://eu.greekreporter.com/2012/04/22/erotic-greek-painted-vase-discovered-in-b\
ulgaria/
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=138732

Resuming the search for a Laodicea temple (a bit of an awkward
description):

http://tehrantimes.com/arts-and-culture/97165-archaeologists-resume-search-for-l\
aodicea-temple

Potential for a Roman suburb find in Northampton:

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/local/archaeological-dig-at-upton-could-f\
ind-remains-of-a-roman-suburb-1-3785282

Plans for Cirencester’s Roman amphitheatre:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-17839762

Another wall collapse at Pompeii:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9219470/Pompeii-wall-coll\
apses-despite-new-conservation-initiative.html

Interesting oped on Ovid’s Metamorphoses in European art:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/apr/24/transformat\
ive-effect-ovid-metamorphoses-european-artists

Slideshow of the ‘first Olympic hotel’:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-17841415

Latest Classics program in peril is at UPitt:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/04/24/pittsburgh-suspends-graduate-admis\
sions-three-programs

What Anne Carson is up to:

http://www.biconews.com/2012/04/24/anne-carsons-cassandra-float-can-bracko-a-pro\
vocative-exchange-between-modes-of-expression/

What Christopher Krebs is up to:

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/classics/cgi-bin/web/news/christopher-krebs-join-st\
anford-classics

What Greg Crane is up to:

http://www.idw-online.de/pages/de/news473187

Honours for Crawford Greenwalt:

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/26/archaeologist-crawford-greenewalt-to-r\
eceive-public-service-award-for-work-at-site-of-ancient-city-of-sardis/

Latest ‘why study Latin’ piece:

http://www.nouse.co.uk/2012/04/23/for-the-love-of-latin-2/

Nice video on Oxyrhychus: the city and its texts:

http://youtu.be/nS_FSkFwpIM

Those gladiators tried to return to the Colosseum:

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2012/04/26/Gladiators-attempt-Colosseum-return/UPI-1\
9461335465329/

Not sure if we mentioned that Santorini is rumbling again:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-greek-isles-volcano-awakened.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47147123/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/332393/20120424/santorini-volcano-wakes-again-\
greek-isle-atlantis.htm

More on proposed Roman theme parks:

http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/dispatches/post/2012/04/faux-ancient-rom\
an-theme-park-planned-in-%C3%83%C2%A2%C3%A2%E2%80%9A%C2%AC%C3%82%C2%A6-rome-/680\
185/1
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/ancient-rome-themed-for-today/story-e\
6frg6so-1226335583522

More on moles at Epiacum:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2012/apr/23/moles-roman-remains-epia\
cum-english-heritage-vindolanda

Review of Mary Beard, *All in a Don’s Day*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/29/all-in-dons-day-mary-beard-review

… and a feature on her as well:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2012/apr/29/observer-profile-mary-beard

… and a clip from the second episode of *Meet the Romans*:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUiNHWDPgog&feature=uploademail

Review of Natalie Haynes, *The Ancient Guide to Modern Life*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/29/ancient-guide-modern-life-review

Review of Madeline Miller, *Song of Achilles*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/books/review/the-song-of-achilles-by-madeline-\
miller.html
http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/the-song-of-achilles-fresh-take-on-\
homers-illiad

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Not sure this is a recent find … the oldest musical instrument from
a cave in Germany (I think this is a few years old);

http://www.classical-music.com/news/world%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98oldest-musical-inst\
rument%E2%80%99-found

Using DNA to track the spread of farming in Europe:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-genetic-agriculture-stone-age-europe.html
http://news.yahoo.com/study-ancient-migrants-spread-farming-europe-182928954.htm\
l
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17857641
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120426143850.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/aaft-nsc042012.php

Bones from a basement in Vienna are likely soldiers who fought
against Napoleon:

http://www.incyprus.com.cy/en-gb/world-news/4329/27301/bones-are-napoleonic

… and archaeologists are digging up remains from the Battle of Lutzen:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,830203,00.html

Reflecting on Nantes’ role in the slave trade:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,829447,00.html

Remains of a Victorian roundhouse and other railroad things
near York:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-17811588

The Cutty Sark returns:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/cutty-sark-rises-again-50m-restoration-010311008.html

Hype for the International Congress of Medieval Studies:

http://www.wmich.edu/wmu/news/2012/04/081.html

Suggesting (sort of) a return to Anglo-Saxon style local government:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17822919

Plans to xray a bag found at a Dartmoor Moors burial site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-17817307
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/x-ray-may-reveal-bronze-age-secrets-022414331.html

… and it turned out to be full of beads:

http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/story-15943159-detail/story.html

Trying to keep the Silverdale Horde in a Lancashire museum:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-17822808

More on the Trefael Stone:

http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/9675561.Stone_me__Archaeologists__new_the\
ory_on_ancient_north_Pembrokeshire_site/r/

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Students from FlindersU may have found a shipwreck off
Kangaroo Island:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-maritime-mystery.html

A couple hundred Qing/Ming dynasty forts in Shaanxi province:

http://www.tajikistannews.net/story/205193756
http://insidechina.onehotspots.com/shaanxi-zhenan-found-more-than-200-ancient-mi\
ng-and-qing-cottage/26787/

Something about the Great Wall in this one; kind of gets lost
in translation:

http://insidechina.onehotspots.com/jinan-found-large-scale-ancient-castle-which-\
cottage-or-ancient-troops-in-camp-xinmin/19812/

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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The Canadian military is going to explore the HMS Breadalbane:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/04/24/north-military-films-breada\
lbane-wreck.html

Plans to excavate the remains of what is believed to be the USS
Scorpion:

http://www.gazette.net/article/20120426/NEWS/704269763/1029/warship-excavation-p\
lanned-near-upper-marlboro&template=gazette

Possible remains of a military fort at the US Naval Academy firing
range:

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2012/04/ap-possible-remains-army-fort-found-naval-\
academy-annapolis-042512/

Recent finds from Monticello:

http://www.newsplex.com/home/headlines/Archaeologists_Make_Discovery_Near_Montic\
ello_149226435.html

Some burials (400-1000 years b.p.) found in the North West
Territories:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/04/25/north-paulatuk-park-graves.\
html

Not sure where Fort Ann’s Battle Hill is any more:

http://poststar.com/news/local/surveys-call-into-question-location-of-fighting-o\
n-fort-ann/article_83fb7c70-918d-11e1-88f8-0019bb2963f4.html

A long lost figurine (maybe) show up in the mail:

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/state-and-regional/anonymous-delivery-may-be-lon\
g-lost-figurine/article_fd7f3972-29b2-5ab3-a54c-35e219b7e2f5.html

The discovery of native artifacts is interfering with the Genesis solar
project:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-discovery-indian-artifacts-complicates-genesis.html

Review of Jonathan Sarna, *When General Grant Expelled the Jews*:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/22/RVIF1M54DS.DTL
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Evidence of human activity in Chile some 14 000 years b.p.:

http://www.santiagotimes.cl/chile/science-technology/23717-evidence-of-the-earli\
est-human-activity-found-in-chiles-south

An Aztec headress might return (temporarily) to Mexico from Austria:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17878130

Using DNA to track migrations in pre-Columbian Peru:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-forensic-science-pre-columbian-peru.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47145013/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/bc-fsu042012.php

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Audio news from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews22apr12.mp3

Latest Ancient Art podcast is about dragons in various cultures:

http://www.ancientartpodcast.org/home/Ancient_Art_Podcast_-_Lucas_Livingston.htm\
l

Marking the Luddites’ bicentennial:

http://scienceblog.com/53237/rage-against-the-machine-luddite-movement-turns-200\
/

Using facial recognition software to identify folks in portraits:

http://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/5453

Yale Center for British Art jumps on the Google Art Project bus:

http://news.yale.edu/2012/04/04/yale-center-british-art-partner-google-expanded-\
art-project

Interesting item on upside-down reading:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/04/26/151311708/the-delights-of-reading-u\
pside-down

Suggestion that Shakespeare collaborated with Thomas Middleton
in ‘All’s Well that Ends Well’:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-shakespeare-co-author-revealed.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17828729

On writing in various contexts:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/talking-with-your-fingers/

Latest African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter:

http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0312/news0312.html

More on measuring dirt/wear on medieval books to determine popularity:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-dirty-reveal-secret-people-mediaeval.html
Bouncy Stonehenge:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17777997

Smelly mummies (humour):

http://www.theonion.com/audio/archaeologists-report-recently-uncovered-tomb-sure\
,27930/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Rome:

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2012/04/26/uncover-romes-history-at-these-five-sit\
es/
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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The US returned some stolen items to Italy:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/04/27/US-returns-stolen-artwork-to-Italy/UPI\
-37391335550744/?spt=hs&or=tn
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/26/us-stolenart-italy-idUSBRE83P1GY201204\
26

… while Italy was found to have some ill-gotten art herself:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-italian-painting-2012042\
4,0,4187454.story

Another theft of Chinese antiquities from a British Museum (this time, the
Fitzwilliam …
cf the Museums section):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9212037/Valuable-Chinese-art-sto\
len-from-Cambridge-University.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-17758686
http://chronicle.com/blogs/global/chinese-antiquities-are-stolen-from-cambridge-\
u-museum/32902?sid=gn&utm_source=gn&utm_medium=en

Similarly, but this one involves some choral music manuscripts (it seems to
be part of the above … the list of what is being returned seems to vary
from article
to article):

http://www.columbian.com/news/2012/apr/26/italian-antiquities-returned-from-ore-\
dealer/
http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/04/ancient_italian_art_includi\
ng.html

Bones from that underwater reservoir in the Yucatan (10 000 years b.p.)
have been stolen:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21741-bones-of-ancient-american-stolen-fro\
m-underwater-cave.html

A mosaic in the Valley of Elah was vandalized:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4220742,00.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Latest eSylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n17.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n18.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Terracotta Warriors:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/arts/design/terracotta-warriors-at-discovery-t\
imes-square.html

Mummies of the World:

http://www2.tbo.com/entertainment/entertainment/2012/apr/27/fxnewso7-unwrapping-\
thousands-of-years-of-mysterie-ar-396629/

Fascinating Mummies:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sciencetoday/2012/0426/1224315190559.html

Children of the Plumed Serpent:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-plumed-serpent-review-20\
120427,0,5970690.story

Manet:

http://www.toledoblade.com/Art/2012/04/27/Toledo-museum-to-be-sole-U-S-venue-for\
-Manet-exhibit-1.html

Interesting followup report on security at Athens’ National Museum:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite4_1_22/04/2012_438799

A pile of Chinese artifacts are coming to Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/biggest-ever-collection-of\
-chinese-artefacts-set-to-arrive-in-britain-7685114.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Hype for the International Meeting of Archaeological Movies of the
Mediterranean:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/04/28/greek-film-museum-to-present-archaeol\
ogical-movies-of-the-world/

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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PODCASTS
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http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst,
Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, Joann Conman, 'Stan',
Patrick Swan, A. Landreau,Kurt Theis, Angie Telepenko, Adrienne Mayor,
John McMahon, David Critchley, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer,
  Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman,
A. Landreau,and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this
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EARLY HUMANS
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Plenty of coverage of the discovery of red blood cells in Otzi:

http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/04/26/rsif.2012.0174.f\
ull
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17909396
http://www.philly.com/philly/health/149914235.html?cmpid=132476848
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57426197/iceman-mummy-holds-worlds-oldest-bl\
ood-cells/
http://news.yahoo.com/iceman-mummy-holds-worlds-oldest-blood-cells-230805449.htm\
l

… although at least one source seems to be concentrating on Otzi asa first
assassination victim:

http://gizmodo.com/5907165/the-first-assassinated-man-in-history-was-killed-by-a\
n-arrow-5300-years-ago

… and another that he survived for a while after being hit with an arrow:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-iceman-oetzi-arrow-wound.html

Rethinking/redating modern humans’ arrival in Europe:

http://www.nature.com/news/archaeology-date-with-history-1.10573

How gene duplication helped our brains become ‘human’:

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/05/03/scripps.research.institute.scientist\
s.show.how.a.gene.duplication.helped.our.brains.become.human
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2138861/Missing-link-gene-trigger\
ed-leap-intelligence-million-years-ago--separated-man-apes.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21777-early-human-brains-grew-big-with-one\
-gene.html

Modern humans had an edge in regards to navigation skills, perhaps:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/05/superior-navigation-secret-to-h\
umans-success/

On the ‘separate’ evolution of blondes (not sure where to put this one):

http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-blond-hair-gene-solomon-island\
s-20120503,0,2418895.story
http://news.yahoo.com/origin-mysterious-dark-skinned-blonds-discovered-181239858\
.html

… similarly, apparently humans are still undergoing natural selection:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/human-genetic-evolution/

This one’s mostly about Neanderthal-Sapiens interbreeding:

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/03/3592660/caveman-genes-lightly-laced-in.html
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AFRICA
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Islamists have attached a 16th century tomb in Timbuktu:

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=503627&version\
=1&template_id=39
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Some temples in Luxor and Karnak are getting some restoration:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1096/heritage.htm

Remains of a First Temple period temple beneath an Israeli drain:

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/336124/20120502/first-temple-period-building-foun\
d-under-ancient.htm

An eighth century B.C.E. Netanyahu seal find connected to the above:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=4169
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Hebrew_seal_Matany\
ahu_uncovered_Jerusalem_1-May-2012.htm
http://news.discovery.com/history/netanyahu-seal-120501.html
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2012/May/Rare-Find-Archaeologists-Uncove\
r-First-Temple-Seal/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/ancient-seal-found-in-jerusalem/

Beersheba’s big dig:

http://www.jpost.com/Metro/Features/Article.aspx?id=267547

Phoenician tombs found during sewer work in Lanarca:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/sewerage-works/sewerage-work-uncovers-ancient-tombs/2\
0120501

Satellite images reveal the courses of ancient rivers in the Arabian
desert:

http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news-DS-Ancient-Network-of-Rivers-Lakes-found\
-in-Arabian-Desert-050412.aspx

Latest on the Ilisu Dam project:

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/03/flooding-out-terror-turkeys-i\
lisu-dam-project/

Continuing concern for Syrian antiquities:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05/01/syria-cultural-treasures-latest-uprising\
-victim/

Feature on those clay tablets which were in the World Trade Center:

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/05/from-iraq-and-back-via-911-and-har\
vard/

Review of Joyce Tyldesley, *Tutankhamen*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/books/review/tutankhamen-by-joyce-tyldesley.ht\
ml

Review of Janet Picton et al (eds.) , *Living Images*:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/living-images-janet-picton/1008410365

More on mummies with rare diseases:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47207778/ns/technology_and_science-science/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A 3000 years b.p. necropolis find during highway construction
in Bulgaria:

http://sofiaecho.com/2012/05/02/1818561_archaeology-ancient-necropolis-found-in-\
path-of-bulgarias-struma-motorway

A Byzantine settlement is being excavated in Pelion:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/04/30/byzantine-settlement-excavated-in-cen\
tral-greece/


An Italian court has upheld the decision on the Getty bronze:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-getty-bronze-ruling-2012\
0504,0,2759444.story

On women and ‘microcredit’ in ancient Rome:

http://www.uji.es/UK/noticies/detall&id_a=28320248
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2012/how-roman-women-got-aro\
und-the-banking-system

Ranking the deaths of Roman emperors:

http://www.theawl.com/2012/05/roman-emperor-deaths

Bizarre tribute to Trajan in Romania:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gRespkTVVQYmcG8SiHb0aEoVTesA?\
docId=CNG.cbc7e79b464161e130bd941cc0363871.6b1

Fears about Leda and the Swan:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9232512/Mythical-swan-photo-take\
n-down-after-bestiality-fears.html

Brief item on Roman glassmaking:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-roman-age-glassmaking.html

Nice outreach program at Emory:

http://news.emory.edu/stories/2012/05/oxford_%20classics_language_classes_thrive\
/campus.html

Nice field trip for some Notre Dame grad students:

http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/news/grad-students-study-ancient-texts-1.2865412#.T\
6Z4aFJ52RI

Peter Burian is now emeritus (sort of):

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/04/29/2031425/duke-professor-leaves-classroom.h\
tml

Restoring gardens on the Palatine:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j21sgNOX392rUWPkt3A-Jfq43iRw?\
docId=CNG.0737c640174ca721d68b08076948e78f.6d1

Feature on Talos:

http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2012/03/the-worlds-first-robot-talos.html

Feature on the Kyrenia shipwreck:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/kyrenia/ancient-ship-s-sos/20120506

Feature on the ancient Olympics:

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/events-ancient-olympic-games-204300910--oly.html

Interview with Madeline Miller:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/01/madeline-miller-song-of-achilles

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Pondering whether ancient Germans may have stolen ancient Egyptian
chair designs:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/a-830958.html

Evidence of Medieval defense works at Fyvie Castle:

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/98218-archaeologists-uncover-medieval-defences-on-gr\
ounds-of-historic-castle/

Brief feature on Maeshowe:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/04/ancient-burial-chamb\
er-reveale.html

Plans to repaint the Westbury white horse:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-17967525

More on the spread of agriculture in Europe (with a northern
European focus):

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-glimpse-ancient-human-history.html

Fallout from the HMS Victory salvaging plans:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/06/hms-victory-shipwreck-odyssey-excavatio\
n

More on the Cutty Sark:

http://www.greenwich.co.uk/magazine/08116-cutty-sark-review/

More on efforts to acquire a Viking hoard for a Lancaster Museum:

http://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/lancaster-and-district-news/let-city-kee\
p-viking-hoard-1-4486128

Review of Hilary Mantel, *Bringing Up the Bodies*:

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/hilary-mantel-bring-up-the-bodies

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A mystery object found in a tomb in China 35 years ago might be a gnomon:

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00292.html

In India, the ASI is threatening to tear down homes that are too close to
sites:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2012/apr/26/india-archaeology-homes-\
interactive-map

Feature on Qin’s tomb and environs:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/travel/2012/0505/1224315528333.html

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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An important pre-Clovis find in Florida:

http://www.livescience.com/20088-early-floridians-mingled-mammoths-mastodons.htm\
l
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/uof-nus050312.php
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-early-north-americans-extinct-giant.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120503153929.htm

Nice feature on pre-Clovis evidence in general:

http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-migration-coming-to-america-1.10562

Plenty of coverage for what is apparently a ‘hidden map
of the Lost Colony:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-clue-lost-colony.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/us/map-markings-offer-clues-to-lost-colony.htm\
l
http://www.thestate.com/2012/05/06/2265183/at-last-a-legitimate-lead-to-the.html
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/05/03/3216814/north-carolina-british-resea\
rchers.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/05/01/2041723/north-carolina-and-british-resear\
chers.html
http://news.yahoo.com/researchers-clue-lost-colony-214550117.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2138832/Is-Walter-Raleigh-s-lost-colony-\
drawn-invisible-ink-Clue-400-year-old-mystery-discovered-map-North-America.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/drawn-in-invisible-ink-is-this\
-the-site-of-walter-raleighs-lost-colony-7707486.html


Definite and indefinite articles form the basis of an argument that the
English made it to North America before Columbus:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-italian-merchants-funded-england-discovery.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47288320/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2139486/Did-English-expedition-BE\
AT-Columbus-Americas-Record-bank-loan-sailor-North-America-1497-hints-first.html

Plans to excavate the USS Scorpion:

http://uppermarlboro.patch.com/articles/warship-to-be-excavated-near-upper-marlb\
oro

Remains of the CSS Georgia are in the way of waterway
deepening:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/05/civil-war-shipwreck-creates-hurdle-for-gove\
rnment-653m-plan/
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/civil-war-shipwreck-ga-port-project-16285687

On medicine during the Civil War:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/william-hammond-and-the-end-of-t\
he-medical-middle-ages/

An ancient Caddo people artifact turns up at Goodwill:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55159
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/336986/20120504/prehistoric-artifact-ancient-pott\
ery-goodwill-caddo-indian.htm

Review of Albert Casterl, *Victors in Blue*:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/30/when-civil-war-generals-clashed/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Traces of blood on obsidian knives provide the first definite evidence of
human sacrifice in Mexico some 2000 years b.p.:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55173
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-mexican-experts-ancient-blood-stone.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/9\
242485/Conclusive-evidence-of-human-sacrifice-found-in-Mexico.html
http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/mexican-experts-find-ancient-blood-on-stone-k\
nives-1.3695711

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews29apr12.mp3


Archaeology is more than digging in the dirt:

https://asunews.asu.edu/20120430_Smithpaper
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-archaeology-traditional-scope-sciences.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/asu-aeb043012.php

So you want to be an archaeologist:

http://www.archaeology.co.uk/advice/careers-in-archaeology/getting-started/joe-f\
latman-ten-top-tips-for-getting-into-archaeology.htm

… and a reminder that it can be dangerous work:

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2012/05/05/archaeologist-rescued-after-being-pi\
nned-by-boulder-in-mercer-county/


Feature on Dolce of Worms and her elegy:

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=267586

The causes (maybe) of Lenin’s death:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/04/vladimir-lenin-death_n_1477258.html

A teen caught a mistake with a map at the Met:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/04/teen-points-out-inaccurat_n_1477094.htm\
l

Pondering the accuracy of DaVinci’s anatomy drawings:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17907305

Related … a pricey (but interesting) DaVinci-related iPad app:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55137

Interesting feature on how ‘unknown artists’ are identified:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55133

On linking names to activities/personalities (in this case, Godel):

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/whats-in-a-name-part-3/

What we can learn from dental plaque:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120502184838.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/uonr-uon050212.php
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-plaque.html

Review of Steven Nadler, *A Book Forged in Hell*:

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/book-forged-hell-spinoza-treatise-steven-nadler

Review of Faramerz Dabhoiwala , *The Origins of Sex*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/books/faramerz-dabhoiwala-of-origins-of-sex-at\
-museum-of-sex.html

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Greece:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/greece/9245299/Greece-Wher\
e-the-Games-began.html

Rome:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destination/italy/rome/66607/Rome-itineraries.\
html
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Latest issue of the e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n18.html

… and the one which will appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n19.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================

Maya 2012:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55175
http://www.philly.com/philly/health/20120503_Those_amazing_Mayans.html?cmpid=138\
896554
http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20120504/ENT/305040006/-Maya-2012-exhib\
it-Penn-Museum-separates-fact-from-fiction

Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-17910197
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-search-for-immortality-tomb-treasures-of-\
han-china/
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-05/04/c_131569147.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/may/03/han-dynasty-immortality-suits-show

Byzantium and Islam:

http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/05/slideshow-byzantium-and-islam-age-trans\
ition

Antico:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55083

White Gold: Revealing the World’s Earliest Coins:

http://www.imj.org.il/exhibitions/presentation/exhibit.asp?id=794&term=%200

Terracotta Warriors:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55091

Burr and his Contemporaries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/arts/design/aaron-burr-items-at-the-grolier-cl\
ub.html

Vuillard:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/arts/design/vuillard-works-at-jewish-museum-an\
d-jill-newhouse-gallery.html


The Asmolean has acquired an important textile from Mohammed’s tomb:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55099

The Stobhall Castle auction exceeded expectations:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-17938207

The National Museum in Afghanistan has an exhibition about the Bamiyan
Buddhas:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gzGM5HZO0JhLZibMGYIMxRQYYSwQ?\
docId=CNG.b1a31f37fd43c751d497a7b1640016c6.a71

Job cuts at the Getty:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-getty-cuts-20120501,0,182954.sto\
ry

Pondering the recent auction of ‘The Scream’

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/arts/design/the-scream-sells-for-nearly-120-mi\
llion-at-sothebys-auction.html
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/the-scream-sells-at-sothebys-for-12\
0-million-a-record/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/arts/design/how-to-spend-120-million-edvard-mu\
nchs-scream.html

Results of an Impressionist sale:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/arts/design/cezanne-watercolor-sells-at-christ\
ies-for-17-million.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/arts/music/freiburg-baroque-orchestra.html

Book IV of Monteverdi’s Madrigals:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/arts/music/artek-plays-book-4-of-monteverdis-m\
adrigals.html

Macbeth:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/theater/reviews/macbeth-from-epic-theater-\
ensemble-at-47th-st-theater.html

Midsummer Night’s Dream:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/theater/reviews/a-midsummer-nights-dream-a\
t-classic-stage-company.html

Merchant of Venice:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/theater/reviews/the-merchant-of-venice-at-\
clurman-theater.html


Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/world/middleeast/in-iraq-romeo-and-juliet-port\
rays-montague-and-capulet-as-shiite-and-sunni.html

Die Shopfung:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/arts/music/haydns-oratorio-die-schopfung-at-st\
-bartholomews-church.html

The Bodleian has announced a crowd-sourced Victorian music project:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/bodleian-announces-crowd-sourced-vi\
ctorian-music-project/

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Benzion Netanyahu:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/world/middleeast/benzion-netanyahu-dies-at-102\
.html

John Wacher:

http://www.sal.org.uk/obituaries/johnwacher

Norman Fruman:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/books/norman-fruman-coleridge-scholar-dies-at-\
88.html

Robert Miles Parker:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/28/arts/design/robert-miles-parker-dies-at-72-art\
ist-and-preservationist.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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EARLY HUMANS
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The Taung fossil may give hints about human brain growth:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-anthropologist-explanation-hominin-brain-evolution.\
html
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/05/07/Fossil-gives-hints-of-larger-human-br\
ains/UPI-74001336436872/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/neurophilosophy/2012/may/07/1

Homo sapiens’ success might be tied to their ‘symbolic abilities’:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-success-homo-sapiens-due-spatial.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Assorted controversial spins being put on finds at Khirbet Qeiyafa:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-archaeologist-evidence-cult-judah-king.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120508103803.htm
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/archaeological-find-stirs-debate-on-david-s\
-kingdom-1.429087
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.429087
http://news.discovery.com/history/shrine-king-david-cult-120510.html
http://www.livescience.com/20204-shrines-biblical-kings-excavated.html
http://www.yourjewishnews.com/Pages/19826.aspx
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=4262
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/155579
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=269164
http://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/the-hebrew-university-press-r\
elease-on-the-qeiyafa-discovery/

… and some reaction:

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/the-keys-to-the-kingdom-1.360222
http://gath.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/yossi-garfinkel-on-the-ark/
http://servingtheword.blogspot.ca/2012/05/khirbet-qeiyafa-possible-unintended.ht\
ml

Plans to dig Abel Beth Maacah:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/05/09/prweb9483985.DTL

An update on recent finds from Judea and Samaria:

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Archeological_news\
_Judea_Samaria_May_2012.htm

Evidence of a ‘lost language’ from Ziyaret Tepe:

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/archaeologists-discover-lost-language/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancient-language-discovere\
d-on-clay-tablets-found-amid-ruins-of-2800-year-old-middle-eastern-palace-772889\
4.html
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/05/clay-tablet-unknown-\
language.html
http://m.phys.org/news/2012-05-archaeologists-lost-language.html

Feature on the dig at Tel Kedesh:

http://www.archaeology.org/1205/features/tel_kedesh_mound_upper_galilee_israel.h\
tml

Feature on the Aleppo Codex:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/revealed-the-true-story-of-judaisms-most-precious-b\
ook/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/breaking-the-codex/

Feature on the Royal Lion Hunt reliefs in the BM:

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/outdoors/2012/05/10/early-animal-rights-artist/

A possible sixth century church site in Jerusalem:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.429195

Neolithic finds from Qatar:

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=503582&version\
=1&template_id=57&parent_id=56

The IAA doesn’t want to return things to Oded Golan:

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=269669

Smuggling is still a major concern in Egypt:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55328
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2018198051_egyptantique13.html
http://www.startribune.com/world/151239205.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/thieves-treasure-hunters-take-ad\
vantage-of-turmoil-to-prey-on-antiquities/2012/05/12/gIQATrKRKU_story.html

… while they recovered a number of artifacts from Belgium:

http://allafrica.com/stories/201205071109.html

Not quite sure where to put this one … evidence of Freemasons in
Jerusalem:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=4105

Vandals have damaged the Monk’s Mill site in northern Israel:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/155491#.T6-ndlJr19s

A somewhat strange damaging-a-burial-site case in Tzippori:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/owner-of-israeli-bed-and-breakfast-under-fi\
re-for-damaging-rabbi-s-burial-site-1.428592

The West Bank separation fence apparently threatens some (still in use)
Roman irrigation works:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/12/MNFL1OGNIH.DTL
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2114581,00.html
http://www.timesofisrael.com/west-bank-separation-barrier-threatens-roman-terrac\
es/


The Qatna dig has a new website:

http://www.qatna.de/

A virtual 3d tour of Giza:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-internet-virtual-giza-3d.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/egypt-gyza-plateau-online-120511.html

The Google Doodle tribute to Howard Carter gained some news
attention:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/05/120509-howard-carter-google-dood\
le-tutankhamun-tomb-king-tut-science/
http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2012/0509/Howard-Carter-the-origina\
l-Indiana-Jones-video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/09/howard-carter-google-doodle

The British Library is digitizing some Persian manuscripts:

http://www.iranheritage.org/BL_Project/default.htm



More on evidence of former rivers in the Great Nafud desert of
Saudi Arabia:

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/05/10/213313.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Remains of a Roman temple in Bonn:

http://www.thelocal.de/national/20120504-42341.html
http://www.rhein-sieg-anzeiger.ksta.de/html/artikel/1335978680795.shtml
http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/lokales/bonn/Studenten-stossen-bei-Grabung-i\
n-Poppelsdorf-zufaellig-auf-Relikte-aus-der-Roemerzeit-article753774.html


The Classics feel good story of the week:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/09/columbia-university-custodian-to-graduate-a\
fter-12-years-part-time-study/

Nice feature on Dido:

http://www.tunisia-live.net/2012/05/09/dido-of-carthage-tunisias-warrior-queen/

Some missing bits of the Cadeby hoard turned up:

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/doncaster-roman-jewels-mystery-1-4527933

They’ve moved the Chichester Mosaic:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-17982339

Donation of a Thracian horseman statue:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=139116

Comparing Olympics ancient and modern:

http://bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/05/12/therealolympics/G4hkiNQoD6quqBbqPvBlWM/s\
tory.html

In a similar vein, but from a Classicist:

http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/paying-your-way-to-the-olympics/story-fn6ck62\
0-1226346184803

… and the usual commentary on the origins of the torch thing:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/05/the-nazi-origins-of-the\
-olympic-flame-relay/257002/


A nice why-take-Classics piece:

http://www.usatodayeducate.com/staging/index.php/campuslife/opinion-majoring-in-\
the-classics-gives-students-an-edge

Comparing London and ancient Rome:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17956446

Interesting adaptation of the Birds:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/showbiz-and-lifestyle/arts-in-wales/2012/05/11/how-\
a-greek-comedy-from-414bc-was-adapted-to-tell-the-plight-of-the-disabled-in-mode\
rn-wales-91466-30942094/

Interesting ‘Warfare in the Ancient World’ class:

http://www.uml.edu/News/stories/2011-12/Battle-Demo.aspx

The Classical Timeline project looks interesting (and needs help!):

http://www.classicaltimeline.com/

Honours for Tim Winters:

http://www.theleafchronicle.com/article/20120508/NEWS01/305080055

What Reviel Netz is up to:

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/may/math-literature-netz-050712.html

Feature on Bill Murray’s work on Roman naval warfare:

http://news.usf.edu/article/templates/?a=4442&z=123

Latest classicist-turned-author:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/editors-choice/2012/05/06/scots-author-blown-a\
way-by-response-to-book-tipped-to-be-the-new-twilight-86908-23850073/

Review of Mary Beard, *All in a Don’s Day*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/11/all-dons-day-mary-beard-review

Review of a number of books about ancient walking around Rome:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1034506.ece

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Chauvet Cave may house the oldest petroglyphs around:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-analysis-france-cave-art-oldest.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rock-analysis-suggests-france-cave-art-oldest-180841034\
.html
http://iphone.france24.com/en/20120508-france-rock-painting-prehistoric-cave-art\
-oldest-archeology-elaborate

Remains of Neolithic houses from a site in Prague:

http://www.ceskapozice.cz/en/news/society/archaeologists-find-early-stone-age-ho\
uses-prague

They’re spinning this one as evidence of ‘stone age raves’:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/13/scientists-stone-age-boom-festival\
s

Evidence of a Saxon glass industry at Glastonbury Abbey:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-glastonbury-abbey-excavations-reveal-saxon.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-17989094

Evidence of medieval trepanning from Spain:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2012/two-trepanned-skulls-fr\
om-the-middles-ages-found-in-spain


Continuing the look at the Lopez-Villareal family’s travails in  Inquisition
era Castile:

http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeatures/Article.aspx?id=269481

On the ‘metrosexual’ side of Oliver Cromwell:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9248773/Oliver-Cromwell-the-metrosexual-how-t\
he-Lord-Protector-became-the-skin-protector.html

Strange/ugly statue of undetermined date found in the waters near Sozopol:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=139143

The effigy of Henry Stuart is going on display:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/may/08/effigy-lost-prince-henry-stua\
rt


The maiden voyage of that Bronze Age boat recreation didn’t go so
well:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9262100/Maiden-voyage-of\
-Bronze-Age-boat-founders.html
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/east_kent_mercury/news/2012/may/12/bronze_age_boat_r\
eplica_fails.aspx

Interesting feature on English pirates who turned to Islam:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9261344/English-pirates-turning-Turk.ht\
ml

A ‘mystery texts’ in Master’s House:

http://www.ledburyreporter.co.uk/news/9699566.What_is_ancient_text_in_Master___s\
_House_/

More on the fallout from the HMS Victory decision:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/06/hms-victory-shipwreck-odyssey-excavatio\
n

Looking at links between solar activity and climate change in history:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-climatic-effects-solar-minimum.html

Review of David Pearson, *London 1000 Years*:

http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/05/london-1000-years

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Mystery burials/culture in Cambodia:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-otago-delve-enigmatic-burial-rituals.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/uoo-nlo050812.php
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-coffins-glimpses-mysterious-asian-people.html

Remains of a 1500 years b.p. Buddhist temple in the Talimakan Desert:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/culture/2012-05/07/c_131573268.htm

As part of a publicity thing, Ferrari damaged the walls of Nanjing
(not intentionally):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-18006291

There’s been a major increase in pillaging of sites in Sri Lanka:

http://www.dailynews.lk/2012/05/10/sec01.asp

… possibly related:

http://www.ceylontoday.lk/16-6147-news-detail-398-arrested-with-artifacts.html

Preserving a ‘dead’ language on Papua, New Guinea:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/09/dead_papua_language_preserved/

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Some seventh-graders on a field trip in New Mexico found a
900 years b.p. pot:

http://www.kcbd.com/story/18364177/nm-teens-find-possible-900-year-old-artifact

Interesting finds in Savage Neck Midden:

http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/pottery-mystery-unfolds-chesapeake-bay

They’ve removed half of Fort Pocahontas to get to the original James Fort:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/civil-war-fort-at-jamestow\
n-is-dug-up-to-get-at-1607-site/2012/05/04/gIQAWfiC8T_story.html

A 270 year-old-book turned up in the Charleston Library Society vault:

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/viewart/20120507/NEWS/305070038/Almost-270-year-\
old-book-found-state-library-vault
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
As might be expected, plenty of coverage for the discovery of another
‘version’ of the Maya calendar at Xultun (and of course, it’s being spun in
various predictable ways):

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6082/714
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/science/archaeologists-unearth-ancient-maya-ca\
lendar-writing.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=xultun-mayan-calendar
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/05/120510-maya-2012-doomsday-calend\
ar-end-of-world-science/
http://news.discovery.com/history/mayan-calendar-discovery-doomsday-120511.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-ancient-maya-calendar.html
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55294
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Team-with-Skidmore-archaeologist-makes-m\
ajor-3549108.php
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0511/Mayan-calendar-discovery-suggests-wor\
ld-might-not-end-in-2012
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0511/Oldest-Mayan-calendar-found-and-it-go\
es-way-beyond-Dec.-12-2012-video
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18018343
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/ancient-mayan-workshop-for-1435307.html
http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2012/05/ancient-mayan-workshop-for-astronome\
rs.html
http://news.yahoo.com/earliest-mayan-calendar-shows-no-hint-world-end-185153809.\
html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/in-guatemala-never-before-\
seen-mayan-artwork-is-discovered/2012/05/10/gIQAPic5FU_gallery.html


Latest in the search for the tomb of Atahualpa:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17981616

Latest research into that well-known Mesoamerican ball game:

http://www.gwu.edu/explore/mediaroom/newsreleases/georgewashingtonuniversityprof\
essorsresearchonancientballgamerevealsmoreaboutearlymesoamericansociety
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-ancient-ballgame-reveals-early-mesoamerican.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/gwu-gpr050812.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120508152131.htm

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews6may12.mp3


On the DNA front, horses were domesticated first in the Ukraine, some
6000 years b.p.:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17943974
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-mystery-horse-domestication.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120507154107.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/uoc-mot050412.php

MicroCT scanning in archaeology:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-redefining-archaeological.html

Interesting 19th century slide collection has been rediscovered:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-exeter-biologist-rediscovers-forgotten-19th.html

It’s that time of year when folks start yakking about recreating some lost
beer … this time it’s from an 1840s shipwreck:

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/weird/NATL-Scientists-May-Resurrect-Beer-From-an-\
19th-Century-Shipwreck-151115415.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/10/finland-shipwreck-beer-idUSL5E8GA9OT20\
120510

Was Jack the Ripper a woman?:

http://news.discovery.com/history/jack-ripper-serial-killer-prostitute-murder-wo\
man-120511.html

On eating corpses for medicinal purposes:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Gruesome-History-of-Eating\
-Corpses-as-Medicine.html


DaVinci had problems with the female reproductive system:

http://news.discovery.com/history/da-vinci-human-body-part-120508.html
http://www.livescience.com/20157-anatomy-drawings-leonardo-da-vinci.html

The Guardian features one of Ben Jonson’s poems:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/07/poem-week-ben-jonson

The Graphic Canon looks interesting:

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/05/09/when-great-literature-collides-with-ca\
rtoons/?mod=e2tw

A cultural history (of sorts) of breasts:

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/10/on_the_rack_a_cultural_history_of_breasts/

I think we mentioned this archaeology-as-social science thing
last week … here’s a link to the journal article abstract:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/04/25/1201714109.abstract

A loophole in the curse (note the source):

http://www.theonion.com/articles/loophole-in-curse-lets-archaeologist-off-the-ho\
ok,28124/

Review of Flannery and Marcus, *The Creation of Inequality*:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304363104577389944241796150.html

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A New York antiquities dealer is suspected of smuggling Indian antiquities:

http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/42558/new-york-antique-dealer-suspected-of-traf\
ficking-antiquities/

A Stradivarius scam:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-case-of-disgraced-stradivari-dea\
ler-dietmar-machold-a-832274.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
The Israel Museum has a major exhibition of electrum coins:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55230

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n19.html

.. and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n20.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
The Search for Immortality:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-immortality-tomb-treasures-han-china.html
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55201

DSS:

http://www.yorkdispatch.com/penn/ci_20602596/dead-sea-scrolls-come-life-philly-e\
xhibit
http://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/towns/index.ssf/2012/05/franklin_institute_d\
isplays_de.html
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/religion/20120510_.html

Breaking Ground: 75 Years of Pioneering Archaeology:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/calendar/articles/20120510

Golden Age of Renaissance Bronze:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b512b220-98ee-11e1-9da3-00144feabdc0.html

Maya 2012:

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20120513__lsquo_Maya_2012_rsquo__at_P\
enn_Museum_shows_pre-Columbian_sophistication.html?cmpid=138887484

Connecting Cultures:

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/connecting_cultures/

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Crawford Greenwalt:

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/10/archaeologist-crawford-greenwalt-dies/

Peter Connolly:

http://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/community/community-news/much-loved-historian-die\
s-1-3826414
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Latest theory on why homo sapiens beat out neanderthalis is connected
to dog domestication:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/evolution/9269523/Dogs-helped-man-out-compete\
-with-Neanderthals.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/05/humanitys-best-friend-how-\
dogs-may-have-helped-humans-beat-the-neanderthals/257145/

More (tv hype) connected to Turkana boy:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/15/turkana-boy-richard-leakey-bones-of-tur\
kana_n_1518517.html
================================================================
AFRICA
================================================================
Petroglyphs from Madagascar offer an insight into Dutch
trade in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-flinders-clues-early-dutch-postal.html
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A possible “mummy switcheroo”:

http://news.discovery.com/history/ankhpakhered-tomb-120515.html

The ancient Egyptians apparently observed a ‘variable star’:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-astronomers-ancient-egyptian-variable-star.html

Oil v. antiquities in Iraq:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jGW48aiDQ54fqdhrffMT4aqCmrng?\
docId=CNG.99be604c1b2b27392e949c6c4024b328.41
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/40466-iraq-battle-pits-oil-against-antiquitie\
s

A 1400 years b.p. olive press from Modi’in;

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/239888

Thoughts on that Qeiyafa ostracon:

http://asorblog.org/?p=2402

Feature/reviewish on the Aleppo Codex:

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/13/the_aleppo_codex_the_bizarre_history_of_a_precio\
us_book/singleton/

Israel’s National Library has acquired the first Arabic translation of the
Babylonian
Talmud:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.430702

A cuneiform seminar:

http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/publications/news/201205/nelc-analyzing-cunei\
form-communications.html

Feature on Turkey’s latest repatriation efforts:

http://www.economist.com/node/21555531

Review of *The Jesus Discovery*:

http://forward.com/articles/156373/jesus-father-husband-family-man/

More on the ongoing threat to antiquities in Egypt:

http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/thieves-hunting-ancient-pharaonic\
-treasures-1.1296815
================================================================
ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Some lorica segmentata was/were found in Spain:

http://www.diariodeleon.es/noticias/cultura/descubren-un-tesoro-rsquo-de-armadur\
as-romanas-en-antigua-sede-del-ccan_690236.html

Socrates is going on trial again this week:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2012/05/17/Greece-p\
hilosopher-Socrates-back-the-dock_6884087.html
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/05/11/mock-socrates-trial-held-2500-years-l\
ater/

More hype for the amazing ORBIS site:

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/may/orbis-roman-empire-051512.html
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/how-across-the-roman-empire-in-real-time\
-with-orbis/

They’re featuring the Discobolus at the Olympics:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9721000/9721860.stm

Mary Beard on the Discobolus:

http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2012/05/the-discobolus-gets-dressed-up.\
html

Neil Faulkner on the ancient Olympics:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303448404577410431487946516.html

Latest oped for repatriating the marbles:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/20/henry-porter-repatriate-part\
henon-marbles

Interview with Stephen Greenblatt:

http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15951963,00.html

The Brill Font may be of interest:

http://www.brill.nl/author-gateway/brill-fonts

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Plenty of coverage (for reasons which will become clear) of what
was depicted on the earliest petroglyphs  at Abri Castanet (France):

http://news.discovery.com/history/early-wall-art-europe-120514.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/oldest-animal-drawings-120514.html(photos)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120514152952.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/nyu-ade051012.php
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-years-earliest-wall-art.html

… with some comparanda:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/05/the-top-four-candidates-for-eur\
opes-oldest-work-of-art/

… while some petroglyphs from Sweden and Russia are
being dubbed the Bronze Age Facebook:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Bronze-Age-Facebook-18052012.htm
http://news.discovery.com/history/bronze-age-facebook-120518.html

Possible evidence for a written language of the Iron Age Picts in Scotland:

http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-scotland-written-language.html

A cursing stone from Canna:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-18130259
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/rare-canna-stone-s-a-blessing-and-a-c\
urse-1-2306186


Some metal detectorist finds from West Norfolk:

http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/latest-news/west-norfolk-three-treasure-finds-1-3\
843448

They’re finding interesting things in a Wakefield Cathedral dig:

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/tomb-team-dig\
-reveals-wakefield-cathedral-s-ancient-past-1-4559444

The Wenlock Jug was stolen:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-18056773

… and a stone statue of a knight was stolen from a Ledbury church:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-18122457

Feature on the Canongate cannon ball:

http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/pictures/readers-pictures/the-explosive-histor\
y-of-canongate-s-cannonball-1-2305141

Some olive trees in Spain are old, but not as old as folks
thought they were:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-millennium-old-olive-trees-iberian-peninsula.html

The Festival of British Archaeology is just getting under way:

http://festival.britarch.ac.uk/


Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Evidence of early hominids at the Danjiangkou Reservoir:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-stone-artifacts-handaxes-danjiangkou-reservoir.html

… and three new Paleolithic sites in Liuhuaishan:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-paleolithic-liuhuaishan-site-bose-basin.html

They’ve created a Tamil Nadu Heritage Commission to deal with heritage
issues:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article3419255.ece

… and in passing, we should note the revival of sculpture in the Bamiyan
Valley:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/16/stone-carvers-taliban-bamiyan

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
On the DNA front, they’re looking at the genetic links between assorted
circumarctic people to track migration to North America:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-scientists-illuminate-ancient-history-circumarctic.\
html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120517193137.htm


A Fremont pit house is among the things being dug up during road work
in Nine Mile Canyon:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865556086/Road-work-in-Nine-Mile-Canyon-yield\
s-new-archaeological-finds.html

Remains of a 500 years b.p. Native American village on the banks of the
Catawba River:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/05/18/3249679/500-year-old-indian-village-\
unearthed.html

Haven’t had a Walmart v. archaeology site thing for a while:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/us/alabama-slave-graves-are-a-walmarts-hidden-\
hurdle.html

Archaeologists think they’re close to finding remains of a 1662 chapel in
Newtowne Neck (Maryland):

http://www.somdnews.com/article/20120427/NEWS/704279739/1049/archaeology-team-fo\
llowing-clues-to-1662-chapel&template=southernMaryland


Searching for evidence of Empire’s (Michigan) early lumber industry:

http://www.upnorthlive.com/news/story.aspx?list=~\home\lists\search&id=755648#.T\
7jZclKwXPg

Fire destroyed an historic home in Virginia:

http://www.wcyb.com/news/31081377/detail.html

Pondering climate change and megafires:

http://blog.smu.edu/research/2012/05/15/ancient-tree-ring-records-from-the-south\
west-u-s-suggest-todays-megafires-are-atypical/

================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
I’m not quite sure where to put this one about an historic ship find
in the Gulf of Mexico (mid 19th century?):

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55462
http://www.livescience.com/20377-shipwreck-gulf-mexico.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/shipwreck-gulf-120517.html
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/18/200-year-old-shipwreck-found-in-gulf-m\
exico/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/17/19th-century-shipwreck-gulf-mexico-200-\
year-old_n_1525084.html
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/17/shipwreck-found-on-gulf-floor-while-thousan\
ds-watched/


Ecuador is seeking to recover a pile of Manteno artifacts from a
Washington museum:

http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/notitas-de-noticias/details/ecuador-look\
ing-to-recover-antiquities-from-washington-museum/15890/
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2012/05/15/ecuador-finds-huge-tro\
ve-antiquities-at-washington-museum/

Feature on the Easter Island Statue project:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/16/easter-island-archaeology-project-digs\
-up-islands-secrets/

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Archaeonews podcast 210:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2012/archaeo-news-podcast-21\
0

Archaeologica audio news:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews13may12.mp3


Censoring Erasmus:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47430304/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Is there a hidden Titian self portrait in the Martyrdom of St Lawrence?:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9272885/Is-Titian-self-po\
rtrait-hidden-in-The-Martyrdom-of-St-Lawrence.html

Dealing with sulphur and iron compounds in old shipwrecks:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-sulphur-iron-compounds-common-shipwrecks.html

On the utility of studying archaeology:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2012/05/20/archaeology-useless-n\
ot-in-educated-society.html
http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2012/05/retrieving-lost-stories-useful-or-n\
ot.html


Very interesting panoramic photo of the Sistine Chapel (you can move
around):

http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html

Not sure if we mentioned this ‘plant repropagation’ (32000 years b.p.!)
thing a few
months ago:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-20/32-000-year-old-plant-reborn-from-ancie\
nt-fruit-found-in-siberian-ice.html

The Victorinator looks like an interesting iPhone app:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-19th-century-iphone-app.html

Jason Ur talks about satellite archaeology:

http://wamc.org/post/dr-jason-ur-harvard-university-satellite-archaeology

Pondering assorted dictators in history:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17990615
Parenting lessons from assorted ancient cultures:

http://news.discovery.com/history/parenting-tips-ancient-world-120513.html

Latest (and presumably last) in the Odyssey Marine thing:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9265774/Treasure-hunt\
ers-have-Supreme-Court-appeal-dismissed.html

Dramatizing Caroline Herschel’s astonomical life:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/may/14/play-astronomer-caroline-hers\
chel

More on Leonardo’s anatomy drawings:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/13/leonardo-da-vinci-anatomy-drawings

On the cultural history of ‘fat’:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-today-loathing-fat-bodies-rooted.html

Doug’s latest review of archaeology blogs:

http://dougsarchaeology.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/thursday-throwdown-of-archaeolo\
gy-blogs-to-look-at-vi/

Review(ish) of Emmet Scott, *Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited*:

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/05/18/how-islam-killed-greco-roman-civilization/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Sicily (Voyages to Antiquity):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2146862/History-cruises-Youll-dig-voya\
ge-antiquity-cruise-thats-round-education.html

Izmir:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2146889/Six-things-Izmir-Turkey.html

================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Vandals damaged some Roman stonework at a Scarborough castle:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2012/may/15/heritage-ukcrime-scarbor\
ough-castle-romans-vandalism-statue-belsen

Christian monuments are threatened in Iran, apparently:

http://www.mohabatnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4408:isl\
amic-republic-destroys-historical-christian-monuments&catid=36:iranian-christian\
s&Itemid=279

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A major Roman hoard from the environs of Stoke-on-Trent is getting some
attention:

http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Hundreds-Roman-coins-Stoke-Trent-field/stor\
y-16128189-detail/story.html
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/05/16/roman-coins-haul-dug-up/

Some metal detectorists found some Roman siliquae:

http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/latest-news/methwold-find-of-rare-roman-coins-1-3\
843399

Nice feature on some decadrachms from Syracuse:

http://www.coinweek.com/news/featured-news/ngc-ancients-ancient-masterpieces-%E2\
%80%94-decadrachms-of-kimon-and-euainetos/

Latest issue of the e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n20.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n21.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
The Bardo Museum in Tunis has reopened after renovations:

http://213.158.162.45/~egyptian/index.php?action=news&id=25159&title=Bardo%20mus\
eum%20reopens%20in%20Tunis%20after%20facelift

There’s a new director at the Smithsonian:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iNy-wS6_wf2nuBQhx3Wo-TeTcssg?d\
ocId=6d9befdfedb74aee897a136572c8bff2

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Peter Connolly:

http://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/community/community-news/much-loved-historian-die\
s-1-3826414

Crawford Greenewalt Jr.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/world/europe/crawford-greenewalt-jr-archaeolog\
ist-who-dug-at-sardis-dies-at-74.html
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, Kurt Theis, John McMahon,
Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell,
Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, A. Landreau, Wendy van Duivenvoorde,
Stephen Balbach, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
I think we first had hints of this one a few weeks ago
and I wasn’t sure whether it was a new discovery; apparently
it is: what appear to be the earliest flutes (40 000+ years b.p.)
have been found in a cave in Germany:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18196349
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/man-played-music-40-000-years-ago-125254891.html
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2012/05/prehistoric-flu\
tes-found-from-42000-year-old-cave/1
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-oldest-art-older.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120524092226.htm

Evidence of early hominid sophistication in hunting in east
Asia:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-zooarchaeological-indicating-hominids-sophisticated\
-techniques.html

Nice feature on early humans in Iraq:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/05/human-evolution-discoveries-in-\
iraq/

More on the Taung fossil thing:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2149756/Fossil-child-skull-2-2-mi\
llion-years-ago-reveals-humans-smarted-great-apes--key-childbirth.html

Richard Leakey weighs in on the evolution debate:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55639
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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They’re pumping water out from beneath the Sphinx:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/42950/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Antiqu\
ities-Authority-starts-pumping-out-drainage-.aspx

Some artifacts purloined last year during (?) the uprising have been
recovered:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/42364/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Police\
-recover-pharaonic-artefacts-stolen-in-wake-.aspx

A trove of ancient jewellery from Megiddo (with a focus on
one earring):

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55618
http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16577
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-unique-gold-earring-intriguing-ancient.html
http://www.globalscientia.com/article/asia-middle-east/education-culture/unique-\
gold-earring-found-intriguing-collection-ancient
http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-archaeologists-rare-ancient-jewelry-172650054.html
http://www.thejournal.ie/archaeologists-unearth-treasures-at-bibles-armageddon-s\
ite-464051-May2012/
http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=35193

Plenty of coverage of a bulla which might be the earliest mention of
Bethlehem:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18182507
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55575
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1938\
&module_id=#as
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=4444
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-ancient-bethlehem-unearthed-jerusalem.html
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-bethlehem-seal-unearthed-jerusalem-092659029.html
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/23/ancient-bethlehem-seal-unearthed\
-jerusalem/
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/344663/20120524/ancient-bethlehem-seal-discovered\
-israel-jesus.htm
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-bethlehem-seal-20120523\
,0,7760839.story
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05/23/archaeologists-unearth-ancient-bethlehem\
-seal/
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14 [high res photo]

Vandalism at an archaeological site in Yavne:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/240662#.T8IrHFKwVhw
http://www.antiquities.org.il/images/press/IAA_120523.zip (high res photos)

Latest on efforts to preserve the walls of Babylon:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2012/0525/A-race-to-shore-up-the-anci\
ent-walls-of-Babylon

Plans to reread/assess the Bistoun inscriptions:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/arts-and-culture/98233-intl-experts-to-reread-bisotun\
-inscriptions

Article on marriage and citizenship in First Period Judah:

http://www.jhsonline.org/JHS/Articles/article_168.pdf

LandMinds interview with Aharon Demsky about literacy in Ancient Israel:

http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/page32.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A new (early Christian) dig is commencing at Kourion:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/kourion/kourion-excavation-hoping-cyprus-first/201205\
27

Oldest Jewish archaeological evidence on the Iberian peninsula:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/fj-oja052512.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120525103750.htm
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-oldest-jewish-archaeological-evidence-iberian.html
http://idw-online.de/de/news479729

Nice feature on the Duke Papyri collection:

http://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2012/05/25/housing-papyri-and-early-man\
uscripts/

A Roman skeleton which inspired Sylvia Plath is going on display:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/23/roman-skeleton-sylvia-plath-cambridg\
e

Latest from Arbeia Roman Fort:

http://www.jarrowandhebburngazette.com/lifestyle/entertainment/video-emperor-s-h\
ead-among-roman-fort-s-new-finds-1-4586451

Some Roman coins from India:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mysore/Roman-silver-coins-of-Shatavahana\
-period-found/articleshow/13547519.cms

Looking for evidence of the earthquake which is said to have coincided
with Jesus’ crucifixion:

http://news.discovery.com/history/jesus-crucifixion-120524.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47555983/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.T7-YPbC\
Jc3E

cf:
http://rogueclassicism.com/2012/05/26/a-pandect-of-gripes-crucifixions-earthquak\
es-open-access-and-outreach/

As often, Socrates was acquitted when retried:

http://www.rt.com/news/socrates-mock-trial-greece-295/
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/entertainm\
ent/27-May-2012/socrates-gets-acquittal-in-ancient-death-trial-re-run

Interviewish with Stephen Greenblatt:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june12/swerve_05-25.html

Feature on Princeton’s Latin salutatorian:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/76/30M58/index.xml

On the ‘romanness’ of the Olympics:

http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2012/05/how-roman-are-the-olympics.html

The Getty gets some relief:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=55574

The Bologna curse tablets:

http://www.livescience.com/20483-black-magic-ancient-curses.html

A new TV series based on the Odyssey?:

http://www.c21media.net/archives/82159

The Elgin Marbles kerfuffle seems to be heating up again:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/05/25/opus-elgin-opera-to-bring-light-to-re\
turn-of-parthenon-marbles/

A nice painting of Odysseus and Polyphemus is coming to auction:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55583

More coverage of the ORBIS project:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2149810/Isnt-bit-late-Stanford-cr\
eates-Google-Map-Sat-Nav-year-200AD-allowing-travel-road-sea--mule.html
http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2012/05/business-travel-romans?fsrc=gn_e\
p

Review of Matthew Dennison, *The Twelve Caesars*:

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/322385/The-Twelve-Caesars

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Plans to dig up the burial beneath the Trefael Stone:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-18172598

Evidence of a 5500 B.C. settlement in Prague:

http://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/prague-district-yields-up-evidence-of-5\
500-bc-settlement

Plans to study a pre-settlement hut at Hafnir (Iceland):

http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/Archeologists_to_Study_Pre\
_Settlement_Hut_in_Iceland_0_390135.news.aspx

A reward has been offered for the return of the (stolen) Wenlock Jug:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-18219703

A ‘mystery shipwreck’ in the Solent has been identified:

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/mysterious-shipwreck-identified-by-researchers-\
1-3881540
http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/news/archaeologists-identify-mystery-shipwreck-44506.\
aspx

Plans to move the ‘Gresham Ship’ for touristy reasons:

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Elizabethan-shipwreck-moved-Leicestershire\
/story-16153362-detail/story.html

Feature on five queens of Navarre:

http://www.historytoday.com/elena-woodacre/she-wolves-navarre

OpEddish (?) sort of thing on the First Crusade:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/opinion/sunday/the-true-story-of-the-first-cru\
sade.html

Hype for a Michael Woods documentary about Dark Age Britain:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18159752

What’s next for that Dover Bronze Age boat:

http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Boatbuilders-vow-set-sail-Dover-Bronze-Age-Boat/stor\
y-16106548-detail/story.html

More on that ‘cursing stone’ from Canna:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-18130259

More on that ‘Bronze Age Facebook’:

http://news.discovery.com/history/bronze-age-facebook-120518.html

Review of Hilary Mantel, *Bring Up the Bodies*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/books/review/bring-up-the-bodies-by-hilary-man\
tel.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Some Roman coins from India:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mysore/Roman-silver-coins-of-Shatavahana\
-period-found/articleshow/13547519.cms

OpEddish thing on threats to cultural heritage in Sri Lanka:

http://www.dailynews.lk/2012/05/25/fea03.asp

A Hindu Virtual Museum of Images and Sound:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/article3455134.ece

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Fremont artifacts found during road construction in Utah:

http://www.abc4.com/content/news/top_stories/story/Road-project-in-Utah-yields-a\
rchaeological-finds/YMpAdptL1k-Qby2jk9jB0w.cspx

Potential threat to archaeology due to cuts at Parks Canada:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2012/05/21/calgary-parks-canada-cuts\
-staffing.html
http://www.sha.org/blog/index.php/2012/05/parks-canada-cuts/

Some burial mounds in Illinois were looted:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-agency-ancient-burial-moun\
ds-looted-driven-over-20120525,0,4673057.story

Interesting ‘shipwreck seminar’ plans:

http://www.keysnet.com/2012/05/23/449293/seminar-to-unearth-shipwreck-secrets.ht\
ml

About Ben Franklin’s fire department:

http://www.history.com/news/2012/05/23/roster-from-ben-franklins-fire-department\
-found/

On nuns in early North America:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/opinion/nuns-on-the-frontier.html


Using DNA to track the origins of Melungeons:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MELUNGEON_DNA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEM\
PLATE=DEFAULT

Review of Guy Gugliotta, *Freedom’s Cap*:

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/freedoms-cap-united-states-capitol-guy-gugliotta

Review of James Wright, *Those Who Have Borne the Battle*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/books/review/those-who-have-borne-the-battle-b\
y-james-wright.html

Review of Michael Lind, *Land of Promise*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/books/review/land-of-promise-by-michael-lind.h\
tml?ref=books

More on Walmart and slave burials in Alabama:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/us/alabama-slave-graves-are-a-walmarts-hidden-\
hurdle.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Mummies and infant burials from Pachacama (Peru):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120522114643.htm
http://news.discovery.com/history/mummies-peru-burial-120524.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-pachacamac-tomb-2012052\
4,0,452983.story
http://www.ksee24.com/news/local/Scientists-Find-Tomb-Filled-with-Mummies-Infant\
s-154194835.html

An Olmec altar and stele from Chalcatzingo:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2012/05/25/mexican-archaeologists\
-find-2500-year-old-altar/
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/5904-mas-monumentos-y-of\
rendas-afloran-en-chalcatzingo(Spanish)

On the connection between trade patterns and the collapse of
the Maya:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-reveals-patterns-crucial-substance-key.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/fm-srt052312.php

Digging Cara Blanca:

http://scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/artifacts-from-a-time-of-man\
y-droughts/

More on that shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico (still not sure
whether we should classify this as North America):

http://www.statesman.com/news/nation/200-year-old-shipwreck-found-in-gulf-of-236\
4183.html
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/200-year-shipwreck-found-gulf-mexico-16379004
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/thousands-watch-footage-200-year-old-sh\
ipwreck-discovered-gulf-mexico-article-1.1080628
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/16/world/americas/shipwreck-discovery/index.html
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/47461215/ns/today-today_tech/t/-year-old-shipwreck\
-found-full-bottles-guns-plates/

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Latest video news from the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Latest audio news from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp


Op Ed on the American fascination with powerful/celebrity jerks:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/opinion/sunday/nasty-like-us.html

Ten scandalous authors:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/05/17/scandalous-authors_n_1524300.html

Queen Victoria’s diaries have been put online:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/9287970/Queen-Victorias-lo\
ve-for-her-husband-outlined-in-diaries-made-public-for-the-first-time.html
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/queen-victorias-complete-diaries-re\
leased-online/

Interesting profile of forensic guy Philippe Charlier’s work:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-forensic-sleuth-probes-fate-royal.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/forensic-sleuth-probes-fate-royal-lovers-lion-hearts-05\
0655008.html
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/world/Scientist%20uncovers%20secret%20scandals\
%20and%20loves%20of%20dead%20royals/6674727/story.html

Nice radio programme on archaeology and the media (this one
is really good):

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/spiritofthings/archaeology-and-medi\
a/4017372

Suggestion that Columbus was ‘secretly’ Jewish:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/20/opinion/garcia-columbus-jewish/index.html

Suggestion that the genetic roots of domestic dogs needs more investigation:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/science/dogs-genetic-roots-remain-obscure.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-modern-dog-genetically-disconnected-ancient.html
http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/education/dogs-1-4581709

On Jewish medical pioneers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/health/exhibition-traces-the-emergence-of-jews\
-as-medical-innovators.html


On the far periphery of our purview, but potentially interesting are
plans to do DNA tests on a collection of items purportedly associated
with Yeti:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18160673
http://www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-features/63562-oxford-university-looks-f\
or-yeti-dna
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-yeti-dna.html

Figuring out why/how copper turns green:

http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/web/2012/05/Copper-Green-Patina.html

Pondering Albrecht Durer:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Why-D%C3%BCrer-endures/26371


Feature on the Amarna Princess:

http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/6881/sarah-pickering-forgeries-and-f\
orgers-history

Something about Shakespeare:

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4024132.html

Photo feature on the Trevi Fountain:

http://news.discovery.com/history/trevi-fountain-120522.html

An SAA unit on Archaeology for Educators:

http://www.saa.org/publicftp/PUBLIC/educators/index.html

Last week we had that virtual Sistine Chapel thing … the same folks
have done some other sites as well:

http://www.metafilter.com/99196/Siteseeing-in-Virtual-Rome

Review of Tom Koch, *Disease Maps*:

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/tom-koch-disease-maps

Review of Roland Chamers, *The Last Englishman*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/books/review/the-last-englishman-by-roland-cha\
mbers.html

What Drew Gilpin Faust has been reading:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/books/review/drew-gilpin-faust-by-the-book.htm\
l

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Dresden:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/travel/36-hours-in-dresden-germany.html

Lisbon:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/travel/how-i-fell-for-lisbon.html
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BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
The Beau Street Hoard of Roman coins is starting to get
some press coverage:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=25248

Latest issue of the e--Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n21.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n22.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Heaven, Hell, and Dying Well:

http://www.presstelegram.com/lifestyle/ci_20719219/new-getty-center-exhibit-focu\
ses-images-death-middle

Tutankhamun:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55630

Cleopatra:

http://www.dailynews.com/ci_20703150/new-california-science-center-exhibit-explo\
res-life-cleopatra
http://www.ladowntownnews.com/arts_and_entertainment/it-s-good-to-be-the-queen/a\
rticle_5ce58db2-a685-11e1-bafe-0019bb2963f4.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/23/cleopatra-exhibit-california-science-ce\
nter_n_1539626.html
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/the-scene/events/Cleopatra-the-Exhibition-152770825\
.html

Aphrodite and the Gods of Love:

http://www.vcstar.com/news/2012/may/24/getty-villa-assesses-the-centuries-long-s\
taying/

Lod Mosaic:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2012/05/27/it-wil\
l-floor-you.html


Maya - Secrets of Their Ancient World:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55488

William Prior:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/arts/design/william-matthew-prior-war-of-1812-\
and-queen-victoria.html

Klimt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/arts/design/celebrating-a-painters-150th-anniv\
ersary.html

Beer Here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/arts/design/beer-here-on-brewing-at-new-york-h\
istorical-society.html

Heinrich Kuehn:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/arts/design/heinrich-kuehn-with-stieglitz-and-\
steichen.html

Persistence of Pollock:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/nyregion/the-persistence-of-pollock-is-at-the-\
pollock-krasner-house.html

The Diary:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/arts/design/22diary.html

The Cleveland Museum of Art isn’t giving much credence to Turkey’s latest
claims:

http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2012/05/turkeys_inquiry_into_22_treasu.h\
tml

Feature on the Roman-Germanic Museum in Cologne:

http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15978326,00.html

A 9000 years b.p. Neolithic mask from the Judean desert is coming to
auction:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/23/us-auction-mask-idUSBRE84M1AV20120523

The Boston MFA has received a major donation of photos and other
items:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/museum-of-fine-arts-boston-gets-maj\
or-gift-of-photographs-and-other-works/

Hype for the new Parrish Art Museum:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/parrish-art-museum-to-open-new-buil\
ding-in-november/

Discussion of a bill focussing on ‘borrowed art’:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/arts/design/dispute-over-bill-to-protect-art-l\
ent-to-museums.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Sergey Khachatryan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/arts/music/sergey-khachatryan-in-concert-at-al\
ice-tully-hall.html

Bach’s Mass:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/arts/music/canticum-novum-singers-in-bach-mass\
-at-st-jean-baptiste.html


An Evening of Holst:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/arts/music/an-evening-of-holst-by-the-little-o\
pera-theater-of-new-york.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Paul Fussell:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/books/paul-fussell-literary-scholar-and-critic\
-is-dead-at-88.html

Thomas O’Connor:

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20120521boston_historian_thomas_\
oconnor_dies/srvc=home&position=recent
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HUMANS
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On dental plaque (mostly) and Neanderthal diet:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-dental-calculus-clues-ancient-human.html
http://www.insidescience.org/?q=content/tartar-recall/622

Not sure where to put this Neanderthal teeth ‘forgery’ defense
story:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120530/letters/My-father-was-no-forg\
er.422000
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A First Intermediate Period tomb from Deir al-Barsha:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/43306/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Burial\
-site-revealing-ancient-Egyptian-funerary-ri.aspx
http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/CultureAndMedia/Archaeology-Ancient-tom\
b-unearthed-in-Upper-Egypt_313348482645.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/06/02/244261/ancient-burial-site-unearthed-in-\
egypt/

A possible new head of Nefertiti has been identified:

http://judithweingarten.blogspot.ca/2012/06/rare-new-head-of-nefertiti.html

Some pharaonic items purloined from Giza were recovered:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/stolen-pharonic-statue-pieces-seized-giza

A pair of Egyptian statues may be reunited in Brussels (for a while):

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/05/31/prweb9559618.DTL
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9559618.htm

Latest mummy CT scan/reconstruction effort:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/05/first-look-at-the-fa\
ce-of-a-wo.html


40 sites from various periods from Iraq:

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/05/28/217097.html

… while Christian heritage sites in Iraq are neglected:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jWyAGIA1k5NCibHGsEbCeOakIqIA?\
docId=CNG.182e86f735d393d097870a81fbbd4ef3.511


A bilingual boundary stone from Tel Gezer:

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/archaeology-news/bilingual-boundary-stone-discov\
ered-at-tel-gezer/2012/05/31/

A Umayyad inscription from Jordan:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55730


Vandals damaged a 1600 years b.p. mosaic in a Tiberias synagogue:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_new=55713&int_sec=2
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/7013738/Vandals-damage-1600-year-old-mo\
saic
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501713_162-57443129/1600-year-old-mosaic-at-israeli-\
synagogue-damaged/
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/vandals-desecrate-ancient-tiberias-syn\
agogue-authorities-suspect-haredim-1.433220
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=271844
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/240662

Oded Golan was sentenced this week:

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=272106

… some pre-sentencing hype:

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=271871


Trying to depoliticize archaeology in Israel:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/archaeology-without-conquest-1.433229


A very  nice live webcam from Petra:

http://www.petralivecam.com/

More on that ‘lost language’ discovered at Ziyaret Tepe:

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-281581-lost-languages-discovery-opens-window-int\
o-tigris-threatened-richness.html

More on that jewellery from Megiddo:

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112543208/3000-year-old-jewelry-discovered\
-in-megiddo-dig/

… and there are still spaces available if you want to dig with the Megiddo
Expedition:

https://sites.google.com/site/megiddoexpedition/

More on that Bethlehem seal:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2018268064_apmlisraelancientse\
al.html

More on Egyptian observations of a variable star:

http://www.livescience.com/20575-ancient-egyptian-calendar-demon-star.html

More on the pipeline that threatens Babylon:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/29/iraq-heritage
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Plenty of sources picked up the AP coverage of some deepwater
Roman shipwrecks off Corfu:

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2012/06/greek_experts_find_roman_shipw.html
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2012/Jun-01/175301-deep-sea-wrecks-chall\
enge-maritime-theory.ashx
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57443474/greek-experts-find-roman-wrecks-\
nearly-a-mile-deep/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2152016/Deepest-Roman-shipwrecks-\
near-Greece--prove-ancient-seafarers-adventurous-thought.html
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_new=55711&int_sec=2
http://news.yahoo.com/greek-experts-roman-wrecks-nearly-mile-deep-210340288.html
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/05/31/three-shipwrecks-discovered-in-the-de\
ep-sea-off-corfu-island/
http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/shipwreck-findings-challenge-conv\
entional-theory-1.1308762
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55711
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-greek-experts-roman-mile-deep.html

An interesting mosaic find from Montalbano:

http://www.lanazione.it/empoli/cronaca/2012/05/26/718830-antico-mosaico-scoperto\
.shtml

Conservation work has begun on a couple of Mithraic altars from Musselburgh:

http://www.aocarchaeology.com/lewisvale-roman-altars/

A major bust by Italian police (and three hitherto unknown sites):

http://www.france24.com/en/20120530-italian-police-impound-18000-illegally-excav\
ated-artifacts

One of Caesar’s battlefields has possibly been found:

http://rambambashi.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/caesar/

Possible Roman finds from Pattanam?:

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-05-31/kochi/31920684_1_kchr-exc\
avation-kerala-council

Will Noel has a TedTalk on the Archimedes palimpsest:

http://www.ted.com/talks/william_noel_revealing_the_lost_codex_of_archimedes.htm\
l

On the looting of Sardis:

http://www.athensnews.gr/issue/13497/55742

Very nice feature on a Roman painted tomb in Beirut:

http://www.kaftoun.com/lebanon/103-Lebanon/413-the-roman-tomb-of-tyre

Perhaps we’ll soon get another exciting palimpsest find:

http://emelibrary.org/projects.htm

Another mapping project from Harvard:

http://darmc.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40248&pageid=icb.page188865

Ernst Pernicka and crew have left Troy:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/german-team-leaves-ancient-site.aspx?pageID=238\
&nid=21959&NewsCatID=375

Somewhat out-of-the-way source for the Hagia-Sophia-should-be-a-mosque-again
thing:

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/259633/pinoyabroad/worldfeatures/muslims-pr\
aying-that-historic-museum-in-turkey-be-turned-into-mosque

Much coverage -- from various angles -- of Madeline Miller’s *Song of
Achilles* winning the Orange Prize:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/03/madeline-miller-achilles-orange
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05/30/madeleine-miller-wins-orange-prize-for-f\
iction/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/02/madeline-miller-orange-prize-achille\
s
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/01/madeline-miller-faithful-homer-orang\
e-prize-2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/30/madeline-miller-orange-prize-2012-mo\
od
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2012/may/31/orange-prize-2012-madeline-mil\
ler-podcastt
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Madeline+Miller+Achilles+novel+wins+Orange+p\
rize/6707814/story.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2152457/First-timers-30-000-book-prize-L\
atin-teacher-Madeline-Miller-wins-Orange-award.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-30/miller-s-song-of-achilles-wins-46-600-o\
range-fiction-prize.html
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/05/30/uk-books-orange-madelinemiller-idUKBRE8\
4T19C20120530

… and MM’s response:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9302769/An-epic-conclusion-to-my-Homeri\
c-odyssey.html

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Evidence of ‘neolithic hereditary inequality’ from a number of sites
across Europe:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-18235130
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/28/daddy-rich-inherited-wealth-agricu\
lture
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/uob-idb052512.php

Interesting burial of 4th-2nd century B.C. twins from the Iberian
peninsula:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-prehistoric-iberian-twins.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/f-sf-tfp053112.php
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2012/the-first-prehistoric-i\
berian-twins-have-been-found
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120530133624.htm

Remains of a ‘lost Pict/Briton kingdom’ in Scotland (I’m confused a bit by
some of the dates in this one):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2152693/Lost-Kingdom-Scotland--re\
mains-burnt-Dark-Ages-fort-hint-ancient-ALLIANCE-Picts-Britons.html
http://www.newkerala.com/news/newsplus/worldnews-30767.html#.T8qPQ1KwVhw

Very interesting dig finds long-term occupation of a site at Terrenova
(Sicily):

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-ages-proof-thousand-years-sicilian.html
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_new=55699&int_sec=2

A ‘late antiquity’ church from Sarafovo:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=139750

On the ‘myth’ of the Tudor period:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-tudor-england-myth.html
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2012/is-tudor-england-a-myth

A 17th century shipwreck near Stockholm:

http://www.windsorstar.com/17th+century+shipwreck+found/6711913/story.html

The Gresham shipwreck has moved:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18232752

More on those flutes from Germany:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/science/oldest-musical-instruments-are-even-ol\
der-than-first-thought.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-germany-birthplace-european-music-art.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Some Sui/Tang kilns from Xingtai:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-06/02/c_131626935.htm
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-06/02/content_15455977.htm

Brief item on finds from various periods in Azerbaijan:

http://www.today.az/news/society/108032.html

They’re excavating another balanghai (boat) in Butuan:

http://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2012/05/31/archaeologists-begin-excavation-\
of-4th-balanghai-in-butuan/

Climate change apparently led to the demise of Harrapan civilization:

http://www.livescience.com/20614-collapse-mythical-river-civilization.html
http://news.yahoo.com/huge-ancient-civilization-collapse-explained-123449804.htm\
l
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012\06\01\story_1-6-2012_pg1_7
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/whoi-ccl052312.php

An English brick in a Sri Lankan shipwreck:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-18192764

A 16th century Korean mummy apparently shows signs of having the Hep B
virus:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-16th-century-korean-mummy-clue-hepatitis.html

Humans are linked to megafaunal extinctions in Tasmania:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-prehistoric-cold-case-links-humans.html

Reassembling a 5th century Chinese tomb for display:

http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_20756515/piecing-together-past-at-clark

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A wind turbine project in southern Ontario is turning up finds
from various periods:

http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2012/05/29/19813656.html

They’re digging at Cahokia Mounds again:

http://www.bnd.com/2012/06/01/2194708/digging-up-dirt-summer-excavations.html#st\
orylink=rss

That ‘mystery shipwreck’ in the Gulf of Mexico is apparently more
of a North American thing than South/Central America … here’s more
coverage:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/05/pictures/120531-shipwreck-gulf-m\
exico-19th-century-nation-science/

A 1600 years b.p. pot from along the Squamish River:

http://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/whistler/squamish-artifact-dates-back-to-at-lea\
st-400-ad/Content?oid=2304405

Students digging a War of 1812 site near Barrie:

http://www.simcoe.com/news/news/article/1363813

A purloined Civil War headstone was recovered:

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/05/civil_war_era_headstone_stolen.ht\
ml

Confirmation of Sierra Nevada megadroughts (we may have
had this already):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120601120622.htm
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Remains of a 19th century whaling ship from Argentina:

http://www.eastbayri.com/news/2012/may/29/warren-whaleship-wreck-found-argentina\
/

Jamaica is trying to get heritage status for the sunken bits
of Port Royal:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/jamaica/\
9299361/Jamaica-seeks-heritage-status-for-sunken-Port-Royal.html

More on trade patterns and the collapse of the Maya:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/27/maya-history-trade-collapse_n_1542842.h\
tml

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Audio news from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews27may12.mp3


A different sort of Nazi loot case:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2153707/Holocaust-survivor-ordered-retur\
n-ancient-artifact-swapped-cigarettes-German-museum.html
http://www.timesofisrael.com/holocaust-survivors-family-must-return-3200-year-ol\
d-artifact-to-berlin-museum/

Latest in the search for Amelia Earhart:

http://news.discovery.com/history/amelia-earhart-freckle-creme-jar-120530.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0602/Amelia-Earhart-New-evidence-tells-of-her-\
last-days-on-a-Pacific-atoll-video
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2152931/Jar-1930s-anti-freckle-cream-unl\
ock-mystery-Amelia-Earharts-disappearance.html

Another 350 year-old math problem solved:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-teenager-reportedly-solution-year-math.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/27/shourryya-ray-16-year-old_n_1549172.htm\
l

Feature on Livingstone’s diary:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/archive-watch-the-words-of-david-livingst\
one-in-living-color/36457

A pile of sports research has been released (not sure how much is of
historical interest):

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/30/450_year_old_football_research/

On the role of speculation in science:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/science/dogs-and-humans-speculation-and-scienc\
e.html

On flyswatters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/magazine/who-made-that-fly-swatter.html?ref=de\
sign


Google’s latest project: World Wonders:

http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/worldwonders/

Harvard’s World Map thing might be of interest:

http://worldmap.harvard.edu/

A brief look at bloodletting through the ages:

http://www.history.com/news/2012/05/30/a-brief-history-of-bloodletting/

Interesting essay on Rubens:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-maidman/what-makes-rubens-great_b_1553004.h\
tml


Excellent radio interview about the media and its handling of
sensational archaeological claims:

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/spiritofthings/archaeology-and-medi\
a/4017372

The ADS/DA Guides to Good Practice:

http://guides.archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/

Weird deaths of ancient rulers (‘ancient’ rather broadly construed):

http://io9.com/5907578/10-weirdest-ways-that-ancient-rulers-died

Turning the literary canon into graphic novels:

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/05/an-ambitious-project-to\
-turn-the-literary-canon-into-comics/257908/

In case you’re wondering what all the fuss about the transit of Venus is
about:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/science/space/venuss-transit-between-earth-and\
-sun-will-be-last-until-2117.html

Turning a Renaissance theatre in Florence into a home:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/greathomesanddestinations/in-florence-moderniz\
ing-a-15th-century-palazzo.html

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Pompeii:

http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Pompeii+Roman+city+frozen+time/6693415/story.\
html

Antipatris:

http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/biblical-archaeol\
ogy-places/antipatris-another-pauline-site-off-my-bucket-list/

A couple of ‘Biblical’ sites in Jerusalem:

http://www.jpost.com/Travel/AroundIsrael/Article.aspx?id=271708
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
They’ve started cleaning the Beau Street Hoard:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-18280324

A metal detectorist found a silver islamic dirham near Horncastle:

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/British-Museum-interested-1-000-year-old-coi\
n/story-16226302-detail/story.html

Latest issue of the e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n22.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n23.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Antico:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303360504577408100879031544.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/arts/design/antico-at-the-frick-collection.htm\
l

Posters of Paris:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55791
http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/arts/posters-of-paris-exhibit-on-display-f\
h5jbcf-156318105.html

Heinrich Kuehn:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/arts/design/heinrich-kuehn-with-stieglitz-and-\
steichen.html

William Matthew Prior:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/arts/design/william-matthew-prior-war-of-1812-\
and-queen-victoria.html


Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://weeklypress.com/in-the-beginning-the-dead-sea-scrolls-at-the-franklin-ins\
titute-p3133-95.htm

Gongora:

http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/05/29/actualidad/1338295224_794892.html

Renaissance Venice:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/arts/design/renaissance-venice-at-the-morgan-l\
ibrary-museum.html

Theater, Life, and Afterlife:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/arts/design/theater-life-and-the-afterlife-at-\
china-institute.html


Recent finds from northern China:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/whatson/event/Unearthed:-Recent-Archaeological-Di\
scoveries-from-Northern-China/1122796


Cambodia wants a couple of statues back from the Met:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/02/arts/design/cambodia-to-ask-met-to-return-10th\
-century-statues.html
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/06/02/20120602PNI0602-wir-new-york-c\
ambodia-statues-museum.html

The Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has reopened:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-18204197
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/9297661/The-treasure-on-my-doorst\
ep-that-Ive-only-just-discovered.html

We mentioned this Sotheby’s auction of a Bocklin painting before, I think:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55583

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Almira:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/arts/music/operamission-performs-handels-almir\
a-at-gershwin-hotel.html

Hound of the Baskervilles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/nyregion/a-review-of-the-hound-of-the-baskervi\
lles-in-stony-point.html

Tempest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/nyregion/a-review-of-the-tempest-at-hartford-s\
tage.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HUMANS
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On purported animation effects (!) in cave art:

http://news.discovery.com/history/prehistoric-movies-120608.html

Spanish scientists are accused of misdating bones:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/10/fossil-dating-row-sima-huesos-spai\
n

More voices for the ‘Out of Asia’ theory:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-evidence-asia-africa-source-earliest.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2154753/Myanmar-fossil-turns-huma\
n-history-head--earliest-ancestors-came-Asia-Africa.html
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/06/an-asian-origin-for-human-ancest.h\
tml

On infectious disease and human origins:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-infectious-disease-human.html

They’ve figured out how tall Homo heidelbergensis was:

http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/article00369.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/f-sf-hhw060612.php
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-homo-heidelbergensis-slightly-taller-neanderthal.ht\
ml

Why humans beat out the Neanderthal types:

http://news.discovery.com/history/humans-neanderthals-120605.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47692301/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Not sure if we mentioned this feature on the Shanidar caves:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/05/human-evolution-discoveries-in-\
iraq/
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AFRICA
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Kenya plans to build some underwater museums:

http://allafrica.com/stories/201206010068.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/28/kenya-africa-underwater-museum
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Looking at the recent finds from Deir al-Barsha:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1101/he1.htm

see also:
http://www.dayralbarsha.com/sites/drupal.arts.kuleuven.be.barsha/files/Dayr%20al\
-Barsha%20Press%20Report.pdf

A foiled theft attempt from near Aswan:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/44123/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/King-M\
eneptahs-stelae-in-Silsila-is-safe-after-the.aspx
http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/attempt-steal-pharaonic-painting-aswan-foil\
ed-culture-2

A pile of Egyptian relics have gone on display at Swansea
University:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-18337395

Excavating some of the sewage system at Persepolis:

http://www.payvand.com/news/12/jun/1056.html

Searching for shipwrecks off the coast of Qatar:

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=511125&version\
=1&template_id=57&parent_id=56

Lots of attention for a hoard associated somehow (maybe) with the
Bar Kokhba revolt:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55686
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47691089/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/archaeologists-find-roman-treasure-nea\
r-kiryat-gat-1.434633
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Gold_silver_hoard_\
uncovered_5-Jun-2012.htm
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-4238447,00.html
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/156552
http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=272725
http://www.livescience.com/20750-israel-antiquities-roman-jewish-war.html

Interesting study on determining the volume of various jugs:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0033895
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-ancient-jugs-secret-mathematics-biblical.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/afot-ajh060412.php
http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16712

Vandals damaged a 1600 years b.p. mosaic at Hamat Tiberias:

http://articles.boston.com/2012-05-29/news/31889784_1_jewish-graves-mosaic-archa\
eologists

… and the Haredim rioted at another site:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4238256,00.html

A sort of overview of archaeology finds from Israel for the
month of May:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/rep368008.shtml

A German prof has translated the oldest known chunk of Hebrew:

http://m.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20120606-42969.html

Iraq wants a pile of ancient (Jewish) documents back from the U.S.:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/iraqi-government-to-the-united-states-return-our-to\
rah-scrolls/

Discussing the ‘James the brother of Jesus’ thing:

http://blogs.jpost.com/content/qa-%E2%80%98james-brother-jesus-and-dead-sea-scro\
lls%E2%80%99-part-2

Hershel Shanks comments on the James Ossuary decision:

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=272689

The Ashkelon dig blog is live again:

http://digashkelon.com/blog/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
A fair bit of attention for a study of a Punic War era ship’s ram
which was found a few years ago:

http://www.livescience.com/20844-ancient-warship-ram-degrading.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/acs-nsf060612.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120606132414.htm
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-secrets-bay-pirates-warship-sunk.html
http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/chemistry/article00372.html


A Classicist comments on the Greek debt crisis:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18255039

… and then Greek Reporter interviewed him:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/06/10/what-would-the-ancient-greeks-think-a\
bout-modern-greeces-debt-crisis-an-expert-weighs-in/

A few Olympics-related items this week … first, one about
those who cheated in the ancient games:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303753904577452351934877524.html?m\
od=lifestyle_newsreel

… and why the Greeks have already ‘won’:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/jun/07/ancient-gre\
eks-london-olympics-british-museum

They’ll be debating the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles on Monday (and
it will be live streamed):

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2012/06/08/debate-on-parthenon-marbles-in-the-uk/

Nice feature on the Marsiliana d’Albegna project (not sure when this one
came out):

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2012/life-and-death-of-an-et\
ruscan-settlement


Matthew Dennison gossips about the 12 Caesars:

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/325418/Emperors-of-excess

Some Latin Week results:

http://www.thereporteronline.com/article/20120603/NEWS01/120609891/north-penn-la\
tin-students-seize-the-day

More on converting Hagia Sophia to a mosque again:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/05/26/uk-turkey-prayer-idUKBRE84P0FV20120526

In case you haven’t seen the ‘misheard Carmina Burana’ thing yet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIwrgAnx6Q8&sns=em

The Arch of Titus Digital Restoration Project:

http://yu.edu/cis/activities/arch-of-titus/

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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They’ve restored Ghiberti’s Porta del Paradiso:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55235
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9318000/Golden-gate-Maste\
rpiece-restored.html
http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/now-clean-door-of-paradise-goes-to-italy-muse\
um-1.3767277

Plenty of press attention for the discovery of the remains
of the Curtain Theatre (associated with Shakespeare, of course):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18351007
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-shakespeare-curtain-theatre.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/06/us-britain-shakespeare-idUSBRE8550LH20\
120606
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/jun/06/shakespeare-curtain-theatre-shored\
itch-east-lonfon

… but more for some purported ‘vampire burials’ from Bulgaria:

http://en.ria.ru/strange/20120606/173884146.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/08/vampire-beliefs-skeletons-bu\
lgaria
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/bulgaria/9318992/Vampire-skelet\
on-proves-unexpected-tourist-boon-for-Bulgaria.html
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/06/12093841-vampire-bones-dug-up-in\
-bulgaria
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18334106
http://news.discovery.com/history/vampire-skeletons-120606.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-bulgaria-skeletons-vampirism.html

… and some clumsy archaeologists were involved:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=139940


A 9000 years b.p. fish trap from off the coast of Sweden:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18331340

On the diet of Mary Rose sailors:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archaeology/9310778/Mary-Rose-sailo\
rs-ate-diet-of-salt-beef-and-biscuits-bone-analysis-shows.html

They might have found the ship of the ‘Pirate King of Scilly’:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154279/Has-Pirate-Kings-ship-found.html
http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Wreck-pirate-ship-Scillies-hide-treasure-trove/s\
tory-16258733-detail/story.html
Trying to preserve some Viking artifacts from Oseberg:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-monumental-effort-threatened-viking-treasures.html


Evidence of cold storage in Scotland 4000 years b.p.:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/top-stories/archaeologists-in-oban-di\
scover-bronze-age-was-height-of-cool-1-2335347


Plenty of folks have checked out the Loftus Anglo-Saxon Treasure:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-18346034

Plans to turn a Victorian fort off Pembrokeshire into a tourist
attraction:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-18262972

Heritage issues in Germany:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/northeastern-germany-struggles-to-pr\
eserve-its-architectural-heritage-a-837536.html

An apparently unknown/neglected Romanesque Cloister site in Spain in
prompting
discussion:

http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/06/04/actualidad/1338839166_403833.html

… with some followups:

http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/06/05/actualidad/1338924407_138332.html
http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/06/05/actualidad/1338920086_986826.html
http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/06/06/actualidad/1338995068_311540.html
http://elpais.com/cultura/2012/06/08/actualidad/1339149057_734965.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Latest terracotta warriors find:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/jun/09/terracotta-warriors-unveiled-c\
hina-video
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/nsp/National/2012/06/10/Experts%2Bterra%2Bcotta%2Ba\
rmy%2Bwas%2Blooted%2Band%2Bburned/

A pre Buddhism statue of Prince Siddharta:

http://www.livescience.com/20799-ancient-statue-reveals-prince-buddha.html

The Great Wall of China is twice as long (!) as originally
thought:

http://news.discovery.com/history/great-wall-china-long-120607.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-18337039


Treasure hunterish coverage of the search for a 19th
century shipwreck near Auckland:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/7073622/Treasure-hunters-solve-180-year-old-myst\
ery

Plans to retrieve a pile of Ming porcelain from a shipwreck off
Indonesia (not sure which one):

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-divers-plans-to-retrieve-43-milli\
on-of-chinese-porcelain-20120529,0,1004793.story

OpEd on whether some Cambodian ‘blood antiquities’ should be returned:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/07/opinion/vlasic-davis-cambodia-art/

China is giving a bunch of 2000 years b.p. skeletons a DNA test:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-06/08/c_123251626.htm

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Ceramics tell the tale of a migration in the Four Corners area some 800
years b.p.:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-ceramics-story-ancient-southwest-migration.html


The report of the first doctor to reach Abraham Lincoln after he was
shot has been found:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/05/dr-charles-leale-abraham-lincoln-report\
_n_1572153.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9315769/Account-of-do\
ctor-who-treated-Abraham-Lincoln-after-he-was-shot-found.html

A 19th century tombstone washed ashore on a San Francisco beach:

http://www.sfbayareaobserver.com/2012/06/mystery-tombstone-turns-up-at-ocean.htm\
l

Excavating a War of 1812 shipwreck near Washington D.C.:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06/120607-time-capsule-shipwreck-wa\
r-of-1812-us-british-navy-cultures/

That strange Mayan city of Yupaha story keeps coming back:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2157023/Historian-creates-3D-image-Mayan\
-city-Yupaha-Georgia-mountains.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Lidar has possibly helped locate the ‘lost’ city of Ciudad Blanca
in Honduras:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120606092719.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/uoh-urt060512.php
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/06/08/lasers-help-discover-lost-city-gold-so\
ught-by-conquistadors-in-1500s/?intcmp=features

cf:
http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2012/06/07/good-science-big-hype-bad-archaeology/

Not sure whether we mentioned this huge Peruvian burial fully of
mummified babies at Pachacamac yet:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06/pictures/120606-tomb-80-mummies-\
bodies-babies-peru-pachacamac-science/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2155988/Ring-babies-sacrificed-an\
cient-gods-1-000-year-old-Peruvian-tomb.html

They’ve preserved some Maya sites found beneath a highway in
Oxkintok:

http://www.tajikistannews.net/story/206382504

More on that ‘updated’ Mayan calendar:

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=20542295&nid=1012

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Latest Archaenews Podcast:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2012/archaeo-news-podcast-21\
1

Audio news from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Isaac Newton as next action hero?:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jun/08/isaac-newton-next-hollywood-action-he\
ro

On the role of speculation in science (with a dog domestication
connection sort of thing):

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/science/dogs-and-humans-speculation-and-scienc\
e.html

Richard Leakey talks climate change:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/nyregion/african-fossils-may-show-the-future-o\
f-climate-change.html

They’ve looked at the pollen remains in the Shroud of Turin:

http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/inquiries-and-interviews/detail/ar\
ticolo/sacra-sindone-sabana-santa-holy-shroud-torino-turin-15330/

Some of that shipwreck champagne we mentioned a while ago
fetched a decent price at auction:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/08/shipwreck-champagne-auctioned_n_1580697\
.html

Arguing for the primacy of manakish over pizza:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pizza-or-manakish--so-which-came-first---20120524.html

Antiquity handed out some scholars awards:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2012/06/antiquity-award\
s-prizes-for-standing-stones-and-seafarers/1

Pondering lost art:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/jun/06/lost-art-ra\
chel-whiteread-lucian-freud

On the first mention of Leukemia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/05/health/history-of-battle-against-leukemia.html

James Cook and the transit of Venus:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-james-cook-transit-venus.html

… and the Maya viewpoint:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/Latin-America-Monitor/2012/0605/Mexico-t\
o-witness-transit-of-Venus-as-Mayas-did-before-video

About 1200 years b.p., earth was hit with a radiation blast of some sort
which is seen in (affects?) C14 dates:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/05/mysterious_energy_blast/


Cyprus isn’t happy with the Biblical Archaeology Society:

http://www.incyprus.com.cy/en-gb/Blogs/4324/28144/visit-condemned

Feature on fireworks/firecracker ephemera:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/08/arts/design/vintage-firecracker-packages-at-au\
ction.html

Review of Andrew Dalbanco, *College: What it Was. What it Should Be*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/books/review/college-by-andrew-delbanco.html

Scholars aren’t happy with an NYPL plan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/nyregion/scholars-fighting-over-new-york-publi\
c-librarys-expansion-plan.html

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Appian Way:

http://www.timescolonist.com/travel/Time+travel+ancient+Roman+highway/6757156/st\
ory.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/sns-201206050000--tms--travelrsctnri-a20120\
605-20120605,0,3561414.story

Egypt:

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2012/06/09/adventure-into-wonders-ancient-egypt/

Rome:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travel-advice/9319285/Is-Rome-suitable-for-chi\
ldren.html

Turkish mosques:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/travel/tracking-turkeys-first-starchitect.h\
tml
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BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of the arrest of a couple of guys found with
a gold wreath and other items from a Macedonian style burial:

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2012/06/08/greece-2-caught-with-ancien\
t-gold-wreath-armband
http://www.salon.com/2012/06/08/greece_2_caught_with_ancient_gold_wreath_armband\
/singleton/
http://www.scotsman.com/news/international/pair-arrested-over-antiques-smuggling\
-1-2346107
http://www.salon.com/2012/06/08/greece_2_caught_with_ancient_gold_wreath_armband\
/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/2-arrested-in-greece-for-alleged-anti\
quities-smuggling-of-ancient-gold-wreath-armband/2012/06/08/gJQAijagNV_story.htm\
l

OpEd sort of thing at the ASOR blog about looting:

http://asorblog.org/?p=2333&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=changing-\
attitudes-to-looting-what-are-your-ideas

… and one about trafficking in antiquities during wars:

http://www.eurasiareview.com/08062012-trafficking-in-antiquities-during-a-time-o\
f-war-analysis/

Some press attention for the WikiLoot project:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/06/wikiloot-crowdsourcing-stolen-arti\
facts
Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
The e-Sylum is having technical difficulties this week, so this (early)
edition is probably all that will come today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n23.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Heaven, Hell, and Dying Well:

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/06/09/3649922/las-getty-museum-illustrates-death.\
html

Lost Egypt:

http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/x465789617/Find-Lost-Egypt-at-Bostons-Museu\
m-of-Science

Churchill: The Power of Words:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/arts/design/churchill-the-power-of-words-at-th\
e-morgan-library.html

Tomb Treasure of Han China:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/arts/09iht-melikian09.html

Picasso’s Parade:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/04/picassos-largest-painting-goes-on-v\
iew-in-france/

Rembrandt’s Etchings:

http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/06/07/4016650/rembrandts-acclaimed-etchings.ht\
ml

Klimt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/05/arts/05iht-klimt05.html


Looking at Caravaggio’s ‘Denial of St Peter’:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/08/arts/design/caravaggio-denial-of-st-peter-met-\
museum-of-art.html?ref=arts

Chinese museums are becoming more ‘outward looking’:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/arts/09iht-rartholden09.html

Interesting item on Philip Mould, who looks for fake art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/arts/09iht-rartmould09.html

Feature on the Russian Museum of Private Collections:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/arts/09iht-rartmoscow09.html

Sotheby’s is contesting the seizure of a Cambodian statue:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/auction-house-fights-seizure-of-sta\
tue


Haven’t had a news followup to this auction of a 9000 years b.p. limestone
mask:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-ancient-limestone-mas\
k-christies-20120523,0,2594457.story

A Napoleonic letter coming to auction:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18335017

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Merchant of Venice:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/arts/30iht-lon30.html

Ballo Delle Ingrate:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/05/arts/music/monteverdis-ballo-delle-ingrate-wit\
h-a-different-spin.html

Medieval Play:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/06/08/theater/reviews/kenneth-lonergans-medieval\
-play-at-signature.html

A document associated with Chopin is coming to auction:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55909

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Barry Unsworth:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/08/books/barry-unsworth-historical-novelist-dies-\
at-81.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/barry-unsworth-british-novelist-w\
ho-won-booker-prize-dies-at-81/2012/06/09/gJQA04JkQV_story.html

Philip Tobias:

http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2012/06/07/professor-phillip-tobias-dies-aged-8\
6
http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=173689
http://www.iol.co.za/the-star/some-of-the-professor-s-achievements-1.1314366
http://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/famed-academic-prof-tobias-dies-1.1315027
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/06/south-africa-phillip-tobias-di\
es.html
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PODCASTS
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http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Cave paintings in Spain are associated with the Neanderthals now:

http://www.npr.org/2012/06/15/155110484/neanderthals-the-oldest-cave-painters
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/15/155009945/famous-cave-paintings-might-not-be-from-\
humans
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06/120614-neanderthal-cave-painting\
s-spain-science-pike/
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-neanderthal-evolution-art-2\
0120614,0,4292014.story
http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Neanderthals-possibly-cave-artists-20120614
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0614/Did-Neanderthals-create-Europe-s-firs\
t-cave-paintings
http://news.discovery.com/history/oldest-cave-art-neanderthals-120614.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/14/neanderthals-first-create-cave-pai\
ntings
http://www.france24.com/en/20120614-neanderthals-may-have-been-cave-painting-art\
ists-study
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/06/14/cave-paintings-europe.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/uob-udr060612.php
http://news.yahoo.com/spanish-cave-paintings-shown-oldest-world-180821995.html
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55800
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/341443/title/European_cave_art_gets_o\
lder
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-iberian-europe-oldest-cave-art.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/science/new-dating-puts-cave-art-in-the-age-of\
-neanderthals.html
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Spanish-Cave-Paintings-Are-Oldest-/story.xhtm\
l?story_id=0330039XH0NF
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/uob-udr060612.php

On homo heidelbergensis being an ‘early’ Neanderthal:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-largest-group-fossil-humans-neanderthals.html

What the bonobo genome says about chimps, humans, and bonobos:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/06/bonobo-genome-hints-\
at-common.html
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11128.html

Feature on Louis Leakey:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/06/louis-leakey-the-father-of-homi\
nid-hunting/

Theory about a plague wiping out almost every human/protohuman
(not sure about this one):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2154882/Was-huge-prehistoric-plag\
ue-killed-5-000-pre-humans-key-let-man-defeat-Neanderthals.html

More on dogs and early human success v. Neanderthals:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/05/humanitys-best-friend-how-\
dogs-may-have-helped-humans-beat-the-neanderthals/257145/

… and more on cave paintings as early versions of
cartoons:

http://www.npr.org/2012/06/16/155169614/a-flicker-of-inspiration-brings-cave-dra\
wings-to-life
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AFRICA
================================================================
I think we mentioned this Madagascar ‘postal system’ a few weeks
ago:

http://news.discovery.com/history/17th-century-postal-system-120615.html
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Security guards foiled an attempt to steal a panel depicting
Merenptah from a quarry:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/attempt-steal-pharaonic-painting-aswan-foil\
ed-culture-2

… and heavy sentences for folks caught after breaking into
a German storage facility in Luxor:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/luxor-court-sentences-11-people-stealing-an\
tiquities

An interesting find associated with the Gezer water system:

http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=38051

Some thieves were caught ‘red handed’ in Modi’in:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/antiquities-thieves-arrested-near-modiin/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/242238#.T927iJFQBqM

A summary of the damage that has been done to
Syria’s cultural heritage in the ongoing conflict:

http://globalheritagenetwork.ning.com/profiles/blogs/new-report-on-damage-to-syr\
ia-s-cultural-heritage

A 7500 years b.p. pearl from the UAE:

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/oldest-pearl-aged-7-500-years-found-in-the-uae\
/960530/

Nice feature on Turkey’s first underwater archaeology
department:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/underwater-archaeologists-get-education-far-awa\
y-from-the-sea.aspx?pageID=238&nID=23262&NewsCatID=375

Latest in the Mugrahbi bridge thing:

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=273899

More on Turkey’s demand for artifacts to be returned from
various places:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-demands-return-of-artifacts.aspx?pageID=\
238&nID=23273&NewsCatID=375
http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/45036/turkey-embargoes-antique-works/
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Turkey-turns-up-the-heat-on-foreign-muse\
ums/26607

Plenty going on at the official Gath Excavations blog:

http://gath.wordpress.com/

… and Tel Burna:

http://telburna.wordpress.com/

Twitter in ancient Egypt:

http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/06/cartoon-alternative-histories-twitter-a\
ncient-egypt


More James ossuary business:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-jesus-brother-ossuary-2\
0120613,0,6215574.story


** just so folks know, it appears that Ha’aretz has suddenly put things
behind a paywall
(perhaps just for those outside of Israel) … I only link to Ha’aretz
articles (and any
articles, for that matter) which I can access without difficulty (or
paying).
================================================================
ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Latest threatened department seems to be the Institute of Archaeology
and Antiquity at Birmingham:

http://saveiaa.wordpress.com/

… and the petition:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/save-the-iaa/

A Bronze Age necropolis from Serbia:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2012-06/17/c_131657981.htm
http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society-article.php?yyyy=2012&mm=06&dd=16&nav_id=807\
96

Theophrastus’ observations have apparently inspired
some sort of heating device:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-ancient-effect-harnessed-electricity.html

Finds from various periods off Skiathos:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/06/11/ancient-artefacts-discovered-underwat\
er-skiathos-island/

Illegal digs are on the rise in Greece, alas:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_15/06/2012_447341

… and austerity measures threaten antiquities in general:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/arts/design/archaeologists-say-greek-antiquiti\
es-threatened-by-austerity.html

The folks at Intelligence Squared hosted a much-publicized debate on
what should be done with the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18373312
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/greek-election-blog-2012/2012/jun/12/step\
hen-fry-parthenon-marbles-greece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/9326108/Stephen-Fry-calls-for-Bri\
tain-to-return-Parthenon-Frieze-to-Greece.html
http://eu.greekreporter.com/2012/06/12/motion-to-return-the-elgin-marbles-wins-m\
ajority-in-a-debate/

Feature on Trajan’s Market:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gYOBDm_Lq0NoEKBJaOetF1LDt2uA?\
docId=CNG.c2be4f22fb920c37be910bc2c57b2630.531

A Greek text of Origen’s homilies on the Psalms has turned up:

http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/?p=8758
http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/Einzeldarstellung.402+M53f1166a989.0.html

So that’s how Palmyra survived in the ‘desert’:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-roman-empire-historical-mystery.html
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2012/researchers-solve-myste\
ry-of-palmyra

This feature on the Antikythera Mechanism keeps turning up
in my newsfeeds for some reason (nothing new, really):

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-antikythera-machine.html

Roman Maryport didn’t get funding:

http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/other/roman-maryport-fails-in-its-bid-for-fun\
ding-1.965325?referrerPath=news/

Review of Matthew Dennison, *Twelve Caesars*:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-twelve-caesars\
-by-matthew-dennison-7851422.html

Yet another (forced) analogy involving the Melian Dialogue:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2012/06/12/what-ancient-greeks-c\
an-teach-us-about-drones-and-cyber-war/

A movie about Augustine?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAWJFbUYT_w

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Last year about this time we heard about a ‘John the Baptist’ bones
discovery near Sozopol … now we get the tv-program-associated
followup:

http://news.discovery.com/history/john-baptist-bones-120615.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-john-the-baptist-201206\
15,0,6509901.story
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/06/15/us-britain-bulgaria-bones-idINBRE85E0U2\
20120615
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jtgux7iJ_uS9tgAES9vNqHRTVYvA?d\
ocId=d5215a4377204806bf5ed044ef2768df
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-bones-bulgaria-john-baptist.html
http://news.yahoo.com/mysterious-bones-may-belong-john-baptist-230719990.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47822985/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2012/0616/1224318057078.html
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n280594
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/15/us-britain-bulgaria-bones-idUSBRE85E0U\
220120615

An intact British skeleton from Waterloo:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2158303/Rare-intact-skeleton-British-sol\
dier-site-Waterloo-battlefield-musket-ball-felled-ribs.html

Remains of a large prehistoric building in Monmouth:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-18423528

Some of the Lewis Chessmen are returning to Scotland:

http://www.agencebretagnepresse.com/fetch.php?id=26357&title=Chessmen%20Pieces%2\
0to%20be%20Returned%20to%20Scotland
http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/14062012-lewis-chessmen-r\
eturned-to-western-isles
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/at-least-six-lewis-chessmen-to-return\
-home-after-deal-struck-with-british-musuem-1-2352524
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-18429790

The Trevi Fountain is falling apart:

http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/dispatches/post/2012/06/romes-famous-tre\
vi-fountain-is-crumbling/714657/1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/11/rome-trevi-crumbling-lack-maintenanc\
e

… and Venice continues to struggle against water:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/venice-s-struggle-against-the-water-a\
-838713.html

An interesting followup to those Bulgarian ‘vampire’ burials:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=140315

Finds from various periods at Olympic Park:

http://news.discovery.com/history/artifacts-olympic-park-120611.html

Soldiers in WWI France made some very interesting cave
‘carvings’:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/french-soldiers-crafted-cave-murals-i\
n-world-war-i-a-838414.html

That Napoleonic letter we mentioned last week fetched big bucks at
auction:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55927
http://www.france24.com/en/20120611-rare-napoleon-letter-english-sells-3250000-a\
uction-culture-french-homework
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/10/napoleon-bonaparte-letter-english-aucti\
on_n_1584670.html

They’ve done some restoration of Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/arts/design/roman-forum-church-santa-maria-ant\
iqua.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Digging a major trading centre in Tamil Nadu dating to 2300 years b.p.:

http://business-standard.com/india/news/ancient-factoriesforeign-trade/476749/

Researching how south east Asia went from hunter-gatherer to
farming:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-southeast-asia-evolved-hunter-farming.html

… and a feature on stone age tools from India:

http://www.thehindu.com/arts/history-and-culture/article3516451.ece

… and one on some Mauryan finds made back in the early part of the
previous century:

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-12/patna/32193655_1_excavati\
ons-pillars-mauryan-empire

A Bronze Age burial from West Kazahkstan:

http://caspionet.kz/eng/general/Archeological_excavations_in_West_Kazakhstan_reg\
ion_1339387866.html

Erotic Pala era sculptures from Bihar:

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-13/patna/32213936_1_sculptur\
es-oldest-functional-temple-kaimur-district

Archaeologists have found a stack of Japan’s oldest census records:

http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v6/newsworld.php?id=672693

More on those recent Terracotta Warriors finds:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/11/china-terracotta-army-soldiers-unear\
thed
http://www.china.org.cn/china/2012-06/10/content_25612238.htm

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Archaeologists uncover evidence of a long-forgotten Annapolis immigration
conflict:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-archaeologists-uncover-forgotten-annapolis-immigrat\
ion.html
http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/annapolis/archaeologists-look-for-filipino-re\
lics-in-annapolis/article_3ef0a9f2-695f-5456-aa2f-75824f886769.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120611122633.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/uom-fai061112.php

Trying to figure out the identities of some people in Civil War photos:

http://news.yahoo.com/civil-war-photos-help-sought-solve-old-mystery-092732336.h\
tml

Search for remains of an 18th century school which educated free and
slave children in Virginia:

http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2012/archaeologists-seek-evidence-of-18th-century\
-bray-school123.php

Excavating a Fremont village in Goshen:

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/south/goshen/byu-students-excavating-fremo\
nt-indian-village-in-goshen/article_3eaaf81b-a4ec-5f8b-8a4e-3e0d06907e2e.html

More fallout from cuts at Parks Canada:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/06/08/ns-archeologist-again\
st-ottawa-plan.html

More on Lincoln’s doctor:

http://news.discovery.com/history/abraham-lincoln-history-death-shoot-doctor-120\
611.html

More on plans to raise/excavate a War of 1812 shipwreck near
Washington D.C.:

http://www.wtop.com/41/2903654/Archeologists-to-excavate-ship-that-dates-to-War-\
of-1812
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Feature on Easter Island:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/07/easter-island/bloch-text

On Pre-Columbian human habitation in Amazonia:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-amazon-landscape-europeans-scientists.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-scientists-dispel-myths-insight-human.html
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6087/1429

More o LiDAR in Honduras:

http://www.uh.edu/news-events/stories/2012/june/0605LiDARHonduras.php
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2012/lost-ruins-revealed-las\
er-survey-strips-the-forests-of-honduras

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Audio news from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews10jun12.mp3

Interesting news item on the Vatican’s need for a new
librarian:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DX7ebJYX6Q

Volume 11 (2011) of the online (?) journal Saguntum is
available, with all sorts of papers about charcoal as heritage:

http://ojs.uv.es/index.php/saguntumextra/issue/view/108/showToc

It might be a painting of a young Jane Austen after all:

http://news.discovery.com/history/jane-austen-portrait-120613.html

Some Welsh guy claims to have found the original recipe
for Jack Daniels:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/16/welsh-man-recipe-jack-daniels

A pile of Victorian criminal records are now online:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/historic-criminal-records-online-230559439.html

This week’s theory about humans’ role in mammoth extinction:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-climate-habitat-humans-cahoots-mammoths.html

… or maybe there was an asteroid:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-evidence-theory-extraterrestrial-impact.html

On the rise of capital letters (sort of):

http://www.startribune.com/business/158205095.html

Seven great underwater finds:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/shipwreck-gallery/?pid=3914&pageid=115\
178

On countries’ shapes and their cultural diversity:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-countries-impact-cultural-diversity.html

This week, we are told the Shroud of Turin is one of 40 fakes:

http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/turin-shroud-one-of-40-fakes-1.13\
15981
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2157217/The-Turin-Shroud-fake-Eminent-hi\
storian-claims-40-similar-cloths-originated-1-300-years-AFTER-crucifixion.html

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Greece wants the tourists to keep coming:

http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/greece-to-tourists-keep-coming/

Oaxaca:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/16/arts/design/oaxaca-mexico-shows-history-unvarn\
ished.html

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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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More on the arrests associated with that Macedonian burial:

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/06/08/3648176/greece-2-caught-with-ancient-gold.h\
tml
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55934

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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A metal detectorist turned up a Roman coin near Burnham-on-Sea:

http://www.burnham-on-sea.com/news/2012/treasure-find-13-06-12.php

Review of D. Hendin, *The Coins of Herod*:

http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/reviews/the-coins-of-herod-a-modern-analysis-\
and-die-classification/

*** not sure what's happened with the e-Sylum newsletter this week ***

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Cleopatra:

http://947thewave.radio.com/2012/06/12/cleopatra-the-exhibition-is-well-worth-yo\
ur-time/

Rodin:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55611

War of 1812:

http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2012/06/16/canadian-war-museum-launches-new-war-o\
f-1812-exhibit/

Thracian treasures are coming to the “Louver”:

http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2012-06-16&article=39347

DaVinci:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18449474
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hU1xSXSU6hNEGDnZYOHDvLzvq\
YjA?docId=N0279881339668973646A

Cerveteri:

http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/44622/the-louvre-lens-museum-recounts-the-story\
-of-etruscan-city/

Heaven, Hell and Dying Well:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2012/Jun-12/176483-las-getty-museum-illu\
strates-death-as-seen-in-europes-middle-ages.ashx
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-la-getty-museum-death-middle.html

Medicine and the Olympic Games of Antiquity:

http://www.culture24.org.uk/science%20%26%20nature/medicine/art389357

The Bible Lands Museum celebrates its 20th anniversary:

http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=35352

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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David Ridgway:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/obituaries/david-ridgway.17866097

Philip Tobias:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/14/phillip-tobias
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9323008/Phillip-Tobias.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Diana Wright, Edward Rockstein,
Kurt Theis, John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,
Richard C. Griffiths, A. Landreau, Bob Heuman, ‘Stan’, Joanne Conman,
Rick Heli, Rick Pettigrew, Patrick Swann, Rochelle Altman,
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EARLY HUMANS
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Something about a major volcanic eruption that somehow
affected Neanderthals:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-italian-super-eruption-larger-thought.html
http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/3067-ancient-super-eruption-larger.html

Theory that Homo erectus lived in ‘baboon-like’ societies:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/06/why-homo-erectus-lived-like-a-b\
aboon/

More on Neanderthal cave paintings in Spain:

http://news.sky.com/home/article/16247537
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6087/1409
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AFRICA
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On the DNA front, they’ve found evidence of African/non-African genetic
mixing some 3000 years ago (not sure how serious they are about the
Queen of Sheba connection):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47907675/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18526428
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/wtsi-gaa061912.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120621130645.htm
http://www.livescience.com/21093-queen-sheba-ethiopian-genetics.html

They were ‘dairying’ in North Africa some 7000 years b.p.:

http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2012/8566.html
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/341669/title/Ancient_North_Africans_g\
ot_milk
http://news.discovery.com/history/milk-ancient-africans-120620.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-chemical-analysis-pottery-reveals-dairying.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=africans-did-dairy-seve\
n-millennia-12-06-20
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A 7000 years b.p. natural pearl from Saudi Arabia:

http://news.discovery.com/history/oldest-pearl-arabia-120618.html

Interesting Bes talisman find:

http://news.yahoo.com/talisman-ancient-googly-eyed-god-discovered-154851461.html

Feature on the Great Pyramid:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/secrets-of-the-great-pyramid-of-giza-20120523.html

Feature on the Tomb of the Chantress:

http://www.archaeology.org/1207/features/valley_of_the_kings_egypt_chantress_cof\
fin.html

Another bust in Giza:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/45522/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Sevent\
y-Egyptian-artefacts-found-in-illegal-posses.aspx

A find of what might possibly be the earliest known synagogue:

http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120622/NEWS/120629945/\
-1/LIVING

Hopes of being able to excavate some mysterious tombs (?)
near Deir Mar Musa:

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/06/desert-mystery/

Concerns for the Dead Sea Scrolls (!?):

http://cenblog.org/artful-science/2012/06/22/dead-sea-scrolls-scientists-in-berl\
in-criticize-israeli-cultural-authorities-for-treatment-of-sacred-documents/

… and plans to use technology to read the ‘unopenable’ ones:

http://uknow.uky.edu/content/computer-science-professor-become-visiting-research\
-scientist-google-cultural-institute
http://www.lanereport.com/7452/2012/06/computer-science-professor-to-become-visi\
ting-research-scientist-at-google-cultural-institute/

On ‘sensationalizing’ archaeological finds in the ANE:

http://chronicle.com/article/Raiders-of-the-Lost-Relics/132247/

A replica of an ancient Egyptian synagogue has arrived at TAU:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/replica-of-ancient-egypt-s\
ynagogue-arrives-at-tel-aviv-museum-1.439895

Marking the 30th anniversary of the excavations of the ancient city of
Jerash:

http://jordantimes.com/a-chance-romance-in-jerash-changes-history-literally

The Tel es-Safi/Gath excavation blog continues to be updated:

http://gath.wordpress.com/

Interesting medieval will of an Egyptian woman:

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=274733

More on antiquities theft in Modi’in:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/tomb-robbers-ancient-tunnels-and-a-cryptic-dead-sea\
-scroll-bring-drama-to-a-sleepy-suburb/

Review of Geoffrey Hartman, *The Third Pillar*:

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/third-pillar-geoffrey-hartman?utm_source=The+New+\
Republic&utm_campaign=4de56afeeb-TNR_BA_062112&utm_medium=email

Review of Andrew Robinson, *Cracking the Egyptian Code*:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303360504577410191168116040.html?m\
od=googlenews_wsj

More on the James Ossuary verdict:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/juneweb-only/james-ossuary-verdict.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================

How Classics strengthen schools and society:

http://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/summer2012/dodington.pdf

The Capitoline she-wolf has been dated to the 12th century:

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=514199&version\
=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21

Roman glass in a Japanese tomb:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/23/japanese-tomb-found-roman-empire-artifa\
ct_n_1621090.html
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/414525
http://mg.co.za/article/2012-06-22-les-found-in-ancient-japanese-tomb/

They’re back digging at Roman Maryport:

http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/other/roman-dig-begins-in-maryport-1.967678?r\
eferrerPath=news/

… and about to dig at a potentially major Roman site in South Devon:

http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/Roman-coins-prompts-dig-uncover-Newton-Abbot/s\
tory-16425066-detail/story.html


Concerns for assorted ancient sites during Struma highway construction:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=f2930
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=140613

Interesting robotic investigation of the Cloaca Maxima:

http://www.futureoftech.msnbc.msn.com/technology/futureoftech/laser-scanning-arc\
heo-robot-builds-3-d-map-ancient-roman-841736

A Greek (maybe) coin hoard from Sozopol:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=140509
http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2012-06-21&article=39387

The Roman fort at Ruse is to be restored:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=140503


They’ve found evidence of the original colour of the menorah on the
Arch of Titus:

http://yu.edu/cis/activities/arch-of-titus/


Mary Beard on the ‘romanization’ of the Olympic Games:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/22/olympic-games-ancient-modern?newsfee\
d=true

In case you missed the Greece v German (philosophers) match last
week:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2012/0622/Greece-vs.-Germany-Schlege\
l-Beckenbauer-Socrates-and-other-footballing-greats

Supposedly the best Roman baby names:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pamela-redmond-satran/the-best-ancient-roman-ba_b_\
1619829.html

Latest in the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles thing:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18522165

Jeff Koons’ ancient inspirations:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/jeff-koons-has-two-major-shows-in-\
europe-a-839828.html

The Nemean Games are about to start:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/06/20/5th-nemean-games-to-commence/

Donald Kagan’s lectures on Ancient Greece on iTunes:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/ancient-greek-history-video/id341652005

More on that Bronze Age necropolis from Serbia:

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/06/18/Bronze-Age-necropolis-uncovered-in-Se\
rbia/UPI-25971340058282/?spt=hs&or=sn

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A very interesting 3300 years b.p. trove of gold from Germany is causing
a pile of discussion:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/archaeological-dispute-erupts-over\
-gold-trove-a-839989.html


Latest claim has Stonehenge being the site for a ‘neolithic Christmas’ or
maybe it was a symbol of unity … or something:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/9346108/Summer-solstice-Stonehenge-was\
-actually-for-Stone-Age-Christmas.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/stonehenge-unify-britain-120622.html
http://www.shef.ac.uk/news/nr/stonehenge-monument-unification-britain-1.188608
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/uos-rfs062212.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120622163722.htm
http://phys.org/news259581262.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-18550513


Archaeologists have found a large, mysterious structure in Wales which
may have once been a bridge leading to an artificial island:

http://news.yahoo.com/mysterious-structure-may-led-ancient-artificial-island-203\
925472.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/mysterious-structure-wales-120622.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47926991/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Possible find of some of Cromwell’s men’s heads:

http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/local/cromwell-s-men-s-severed-heads-buried-in\
-james-green-1-3955049

On the DNA front, the Welsh and Cornish are apparently the ‘purest
Britons’:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9336923/Welsh-and-Cornish-are-th\
e-purest-Britons-scientists-claim.html

Some exhumed monks were reburied:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-18551431

They’re surveying Bristol’s College Green:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-18491117


A hairpin which once belonged to Catherine de Medici turned up in a
toilet:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/queens-hair-pin-found--in-a-toilet.aspx

More on that Viking shipwreck find off Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/41510/20120618/
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/120618/sweden-800-year-ol\
d-shipwreck-found
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/06/18/viking-shipwreck-discovered-off-swedish-\
coast/

More on purported John the Baptist remains:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120618151228.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06/120618-john-the-baptist-bones-je\
sus-christ-bible-bulgaria-science-higham/
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/bones-in-bulgarian-monastery-may-be-o\
f-john-the-baptist-study/story-fnb64oi6-1226396299326

More on the restoration of Santa Maria Antiqua:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/arts/design/roman-forum-church-santa-maria-ant\
iqua.html

… and of course they’re still talking about Bulgarian vampires:

http://www.thesundaily.my/news/409855

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A 37 000 years b.p. (or thereabouts) burial from Sri Lanka:

http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2012/06/24/new33.asp

Oldest petroglyphs in Australia:

http://news.yahoo.com/archaeologist-finds-oldest-rock-art-australia-134339160.ht\
ml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/18/rock-australia-art
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56029#.T-b-nJFQBqM

Doubts about a claimed 3500 years b.p. toilet find in Viet Nam:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/en/science-technology/23957/vietnamese-archaeologis\
ts-have-doubts-of-3-500-year-toilet-discovery.html

cf (this article is really a couple years old I think):

http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/Life-Style/226384/ancient-toilet-found-in-vie\
t-nam.html

More on that new trove of Terra Cotta warriors:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/new-trove-of-terra-cotta-warriors-u\
nearthed-in-china/

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Feature on the War of 1812:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/backissues/2012/06/the-war-of-1812.html

They’ve uncovered the foundations of Maryland’s first state house:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/archaeologists-uncover-foundation-of-marylan\
ds-1st-state-house-in-st-marys-city/2012/06/21/gJQAZe3hsV_story.html

Looking for the original Fort Boonesborough:

http://www.kentucky.com/2012/06/20/2232089/archeologists-hope-to-find-traces.htm\
l

Big bucks for George Washington’s personal copy of the
Constitution:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18559880
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56083#.T-b5h5FQBqM

Oregon and California are arguing over where Drake landed:

http://www.npr.org/2012/06/17/155194143/states-stake-claim-on-sir-francis-drakes\
-landing


Possible evidence of an earlier migration of folks across the
Bering Strait (or at least earlier opportunity):

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/osu-ndd061912.php
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-deglaciation-door-earlier-americans-migration.html

A Penn Museum lecture by Robert Schuyler on the fort at Jamestown:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBYtQ1P-ZHE&feature=em-uploademail

Review(ish) of Jim Downs, *Sick From Freedom*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/16/slavery-starvation-civil-war

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
New theory how the Easter Island moai were ‘walked’:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06/120622-easter-island-statues-mov\
ed-hunt-lipo-science-rocked/
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/19/12302614-how-easter-islands-stat\
ues-walked
http://www.lbpost.com/news/2000000530-csulb-archaeologist-s-work-featured-in-nat\
ional-geographic
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/mystery-easter-island-statues-solved-artic\
le-1.1101299
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/21/easter-island-statues-walked-theory_n_1\
615990.html
http://www.slashgear.com/easter-island-statues-get-new-theories-from-natgeo-2223\
5313/

… and as long as we’re talking about the Moai, here’s a nice APOD of the
Milky Way above a group of them:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120618.html

A pre-Inca cinnabar mine from Trujillo:

http://www.peruviantimes.com/22/pre-inca-cinnabar-mine-discovered-in-trujillo/16\
097/

More on pre-Columbian human presence in the Amazon basin:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/nsf-srp061812.php

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Latest video news from the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Commentary on new methods of ‘digging’ in archaeology:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2012/06/24/new-tools-cant-replac\
e-excavation.html
http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2012/06/archaeology-is-more-than-digging.ht\
ml

A possible musical inspiration for Puccini:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/arts/music/puccini-opera-echoes-a-music-box-at\
-the-morris-museum.html

The restored version of Caravaggio’s Lazarus is back on display:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18463219

… and people still flock to the Madonna di Loreto:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/14/arts/design/caravaggio-still-beckons-hoi-pollo\
i.html


In case you didn’t get the news about the ‘disturbing’ penguins they
saw during Captain Scott’s Antarctic expedition:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18370797

Thermal Quasi-Reflectography appears to be another
imaging technique which will be useful:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-infrared-unveils-never-before-seen-renaissance.html

Composing music by ‘natural selection’:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-music-natural.html

A possible ‘new’ Indo European language has been discovered:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-code-european-language.html


Clues as to who bankrolled John Cabot:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/science/john-cabot-italian-bankers-and-the-new\
-world.html

Feature on the hunt for various ‘lost cities’:

http://news.discovery.com/earth/lost-cities-120618.html

The Oxford Index might be of interest to some folks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XZfgwO5GFk

Some objects associated with Shakespeare are going on
display:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/william-shakespeare/9351055/Shakespea\
res-inspirations-go-on-show-at-British-Museum.html

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
‘Caligula’s Playground’:

http://www.smh.com.au/travel/activity/cruises/in-caligulas-playground-20120621-2\
0q6h.html

Oaxaca:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/16/arts/design/oaxaca-mexico-shows-history-unvarn\
ished.html

Polish Palaces:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/travel/palace-hopping-in-poland.html
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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How (apparently) they pillage sites in Uzekistan:

http://www.uznews.net/news_single.php?lng=en&sub=&cid=4&nid=20172

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A major Greek and Roman collection is coming to auction:

http://www.coinweek.com/auctions-news/morton-eden-to-sell-5000-greek-and-roman-c\
oins-from-the-seaver-collection/

… to be followed by another major Greek and Roman collection:

http://www.coinweek.com/auctions-news/numismatists-collection-to-be-sold-to-bene\
fit-british-museum/

… and the e-Sylum is back … here’s the latest:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n25.html

… and the one which will likely show up later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n26.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Glimpses into the Life of Hasidic Jews:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56031#.T-cA9ZFQBqM

Cleopatra:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cleopatra-20120620,0,170\
1782.story

Dawn of Egyptian Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/16/arts/16iht-melikian16.html

Landmarks of New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/nyregion/the-landmarks-of-new-york-is-coming-t\
o-the-parrish-art-museum.html


The Toledo Museum of Art will be returning a 2500 years b.p.
kalpis to Italy:

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20899804/ohio-museum-return-ancient-\
water-jug-italy
http://www.ydr.com/living/ci_20899804/ohio-museum-return-ancient-water-jug-italy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ohio-museum-to-return-2500-year-old-water\
-jug-believed-dug-up-illegally-to-italy/2012/06/20/gJQAVs3iqV_story.html
http://usa.greekreporter.com/2012/06/21/ohio-museum-returns-ancient-vessel-depic\
ting-god-dionysos-to-italy/
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2012/06/21/toledo\
-museum-to-send-rare-jug-back-to-italy.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Song of Songs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/arts/music/blue-heron-at-st-ignatius-of-antioc\
h.html?ref=music

Henry IV.i:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/nyregion/a-review-of-henry-iv-part-1-at-the-sh\
akespeare-theater-of-new-jersey.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal

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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Philip Tobias:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/06/19/phillip-v-tobias-1925-\
2012/
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HUMANS
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Plenty of coverage of Australopithecus sediba’s diet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/science/australopithecus-sediba-preferred-fore\
st-foods-fossil-teeth-suggest.html
http://www.history.com/news/2012/06/27/human-ancestor-ate-leaves-wood-and-bark/
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/06/early-human-ate-like-a-giraffe.htm\
l
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/06/27/ancient-tartar-other\
-dental-clues-reveal-unexpected-diet-of-early-human-relative/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/jhu-tww062712.php
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-ancient-human-ancestor-australopithecus-sediba.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18603558
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2165569/Missing-link-human-ancest\
or-ate-leaves-fruit-trees-like-chimps.html
http://www.livescience.com/21218-humanity-origins-woodlands.html
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AFRICA
================================================================
Sierra Leone wants to get into ‘slave tourism’:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18613200

Some sites in Timbuktu are on UNESCO’s endangered list:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18626033

More on dairy farming in sub-Saharan Africa:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/science/in-african-pottery-evidence-of-ancient\
-dairy-farmers.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A report on recent work at Amarna:

http://egyptology.blogspot.ca/2012/06/report-on-work-recently-completed-at.html

This report is a bit too vague for me to tell if we’ve mentioned
this First Intermediate tomb find (but I think we have):

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-05-29/science/31886830_1_tomb-t\
erracotta-texts


I think we mentioned a while back the discovery of what may be
a Phoenician port in Beirut … turns out it isn’t (?):

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Article.aspx?id=178652#axzz1z9ATiaRY

… and construction proceeds apace:

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/120628/beirut-tears-\
down-ancient-phoenician-port-skyscrapers
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2012/Jun-28/178530-construction-firm\
-demolishes-phoenician-port.ashx#axzz1z2Hd2yzS


A Second Temple era miqveh beneath the Al Aqsa mosque:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=4890

Feature on the DSS:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/unexpected-beauty-and-unanswered-riddles-from-a-des\
ert-cave/

LandMinds interview with Haim Gitler about the White Gold exhibition at
the Israel Museum:

http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM%202012-a/files/LM-12July2k12a.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM%202012-a/files/LM-12July2k12b.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM%202012-a/files/LM-12July2k12c.mp3

cf: http://www.imj.org.il/exhibitions/2012/WhiteGold/index.html


Latest from Tel Burna:

http://telburna.wordpress.com/

Latest from Tell es-Safi/Gath:

http://gath.wordpress.com/

UNESCO put the Church of the Nativity on the heritage list:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/unesco-urgently-lists-church-of-nativity-as-wor\
ld-heritage.aspx?pageID=238&nID=24400&NewsCatID=375

… while Palestine is seeking such status for other things as well:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/world/middleeast/palestinian-village-tries-to-\
protect-landmark.html

The IAA has started constructing its new HQ:

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=275069


Pondering Nasser’s decision to ‘give away’ some of Egypt’s temples:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/46243/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egypts\
-pharaonic-temples-exhibited-abroad-relate-t.aspx

More on that US-Iraq archaeological dispute:

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=53042
http://news.yahoo.com/iraq-cuts-us-archaeology-cooperation-over-archives-1658201\
52.html
http://nordonart.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/afp-iraq-cuts-us-archaeology-cooperati\
on-over-archives/

More on Deir Mar Musa:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-mystery.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/syrian-desert-structures-120626.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of the discovery of remains of a marble-paved
Roman road in Thessaloniki:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/06/26/greece-ancient-road.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120625/eu-greece-ancient-road/
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/06/25/155734801/greek-workers-find-anci\
ent-highway-in-subway-dig
http://news.yahoo.com/subway-unearths-ancient-road-greece-215137746.html
http://www.scotsman.com/news/international/workmen-unearth-ancient-roman-road-1-\
2377331
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/archaeologists-in-gre\
ece-uncover-roman-road-7887770.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-subway-unearths-ancient-road-greece.html

A major Roman/Celtic coin hoard from Jersey:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-18579868
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=46800
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/jun/26/iron-age-coins-discovered-jersey
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9358395/Iron-Age-coins-worth-1m-found-by-Jers\
ey-treasure-hunters.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/massive-celtic-coins-hoard-found\
-on-jersey-7888748.html

Can’t remember if we mentioned this study revealing the colour of the
menorah
on the Arch of Titus:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/25/arts/design/menorah-on-arch-of-titus-in-roman-\
forum-was-rich-yellow.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-technologies-ancient-rome.html

Thracian burials exposed near a Bulgarian highway:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=140731

A Lego version of the Colosseum is genuinely impressive:

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/i-came-i-saw-i-constructed-20\
120628-213dy.html

More on Roman glass in a Japanese tomb:

http://japandailypress.com/ancient-roman-jewelry-unearthed-from-japanese-tomb-25\
5113

More on the Capitoline she-wolf being rather younger:

http://news.discovery.com/history/she-wolf-rome-icon-120625.html

Review of Aloys Winterling, *Caligula*:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1009207.ece


Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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An image of a reindeer in a Welsh cave is Britain’s oldest
rock art:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-18648683
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120629142527.htm
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-u-series-dating-welsh-reindeer-britain.html

A neolithic bow from La Draga:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/uadb-ldn062912.php
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-la-draga-neolithic-site-banyoles.html

A dogtooth-studded purse from near Liepzig may be the world’s oldest
(purse):

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06/120627-worlds-oldest-purse-dog-t\
eeth-science-handbag-friederich/


A somewhat strange Anglo-Saxon woman + cow burial:

http://news.discovery.com/history/skeleton-playground-120628.html
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Mystery-of-rare-600AD-find-25062012.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-18580332

A Saxon burial from Woolbeding:

http://www.midhurstandpetworth.co.uk/news/local/saxon-coffin-unearthed-at-woolbe\
ding-1-3994572

Excavating a 13th century prior in Wombridge:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-18581262

The Royal Armouries have purchased a vampire slaying kit:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-18583374

Bulgarian archaeologists are moving past the vampire finds and digging
up a monastery:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=140728

… and they’ve found some underwater Byzantine fortifications at Cape
Akin:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n281878

… and they’re trying to get Heritage Status for their ‘Valley of Kings’:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=140832

Looking for funding to explore that Swedish shipwreck that’s been
in the news the past couple of weeks:

http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2012/06/28/swedish-archaeologists-push-for-shipw\
reck-excavation/



Some highlights from the Scottish treasure trove report:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-18641510

Seems to be a bit of sensationalism in this DNA story:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9363268/Scottish-lecturer-found-\
to-be-grandfather-of-everyone-in-Britain.html

… while the genome of this Mesolithic pair does have some interest:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-spanish-recover-genome-hunter-gatherer-individuals.\
html


The Aberdeen Bestiary has gone on display:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2164752/The-800-year-old-book-fit-king-a\
ll.html

Some mysterious marks on Norwegian pine trees have an explanation:

http://sciencenordic.com/mystical-marks-virgin-forest-explained

OpEddish thing on metal detectorists in the UK:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/at-a-glance/main-section/battle-to-stop-time\
-bandits-selling-off-our-history-1-4696527

More on Stonehenge as symbol of unification:

http://www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-features/64249-mysterious-stonehenge-a-s\
ymbol-of-unification-for-britain

Development fears in Venice:

http://www.npr.org/2012/06/18/155131818/locals-fear-venice-becoming-a-big-shoppi\
ng-center?sc=17&f=1001

Review of Kate Summerscale, *Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace*:

http://www.npr.org/2012/06/19/154766639/divorce-disgrace-and-one-steamy-victoria\
n-diary?sc=17&f=1032

Reviewish of Adrian Daub, *Uncivil Unions*:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-stanford-professor-reveals-german-philosophers.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Finds from a cave in Jiangxi are pushing back the invention of pottery
some 10 000 years:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/science/oldest-known-pottery-found-in-china.ht\
ml
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-pottery-years-chinese-cave.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18602281
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/28/ancient-chinese-pottery-oldest-yet
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56218#.T_Ax5pFD2So

A site in South Korea may be eastern Asia’s oldest agricultural site:

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jun/27/skorea-claims-east-asias-oldest-farmi\
ng-site/
http://news.yahoo.com/skorea-claims-east-asias-oldest-farming-073340754.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/10308785
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-skorea-east-asia-oldest-farming.html

Mohenjo Daro is threatened:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18491900

A Buddha carving damaged by the Taliban has been restored (somewhat):

http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Pakistan-Buddha-attacked-by-Taliban-gets-\
facelift-3659644.php
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56161#.T_Ayv5FD2So

More on that purported Vietnamese toilet:

http://www.thanhniennews.com/index/pages/20120624-vietnam-3,500-year-old-latrine\
-is-probably-a-bold-assumption-local-scientists.aspx

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Some nineteenth century burials found at a Phoenix construction
site:

http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/2012/06/28/20120628phoenix-a\
ncient-artifacts-found-build-site.html?sf4867467=1

Digging a Civil War site near Chicago:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-camp-douglas-20120701%2C0%2C5892\
510.story

Lack of a common strategy may have made the Civil War ‘bloodier’:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-lack-common-strategy-longer-bloodier.html

Latest from Jamestown:

http://www.historicjamestowne.org/the_dig/

More on Washington’s personal copy of the Constitution:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18559880

Review of Susan Matt, *Homesickness*:

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/homesickness-american-history-susan-matt

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Latest on the Maya calendar:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48000582/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.slashgear.com/newly-discovered-mayan-text-says-2012-is-the-end-of-the\
-calendar-not-the-world-29236443/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18644636
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120628181735.htm

Not sure if we mentioned this Maya text from La Corona yet:

http://decipherment.wordpress.com/2012/06/30/notes-on-a-new-text-from-la-corona/

cf: http://phys.org/news/2012-06-maya-archaeologists-unearth-monument.html

Reviving the Bajo Quinto:

http://www.npr.org/2012/06/28/155850505/the-bajo-quinto-the-instrument-that-will\
-not-go-gently?sc=17&f=124289519

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://michaelruggeri.com/MIKE_RUGGERIS_THE_ANCIENT_AMERICAS_BREAKING_NEWS/MIKE_\
RUGGERIS_THE_ANCIENT_AMERICAS_BREAKING_NEWS/MIKE_RUGGERIS_THE_ANCIENT_AMERICAS_B\
REAKING_NEWS.html

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Audio news from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews24jun12.mp3


Interesting suggestion of a possible eighth century supernova
description/sighting:

http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/2625-red-crucifix-supernova.html

Caravaggio’s ‘Resurrection of Lazarus’ has been restored:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyg1vPsBr9Q&feature=em-uploademail

Some sort of major paleogenetics study has been launched:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/jgum-muc062712.php

Opeddish sort of thing on digging up cemeteries to make way for
railways etc.:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18505222

On the origins of beer (hmmmmm):

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-accidents-ancient-bakeries-years-brew.html

A pile of Arabic manuscripts are going online:

http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=275220

On 16th century social networking:

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-facebook-concept-sixteenth-century-scholars.html

Looking for Charelemagne:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/opinion/sunday/wheres-charlemagne-when-we-need\
-him.html

Maybe that Newtonian math problem wasn’t solved after all:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/21/16-year-old-genius-shoury_n_1616085.htm\
l

Feature on the Butler Library:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/27/arts/butler-library-at-columbia-is-a-haven-for\
-body-and-mind.html?ref=arts

Review of Jane Schlueter, *The Album Amicorum*:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1059759.ece

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Concerns in Rome about tourists taking ‘souvenirs’:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/travel-old/italian-police-cracking-down-\
on-tourists-taking-pieces-of-ancient-rome-as-souvenirs/story-fn302659-1226408942\
330
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/06/roman-artifacts-targeted-by-touris\
ts-as-take-home-gifts/

Stratford (Ontario):

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/travel/tracking-bieber-and-the-bard-in-stra\
tford.html

Jesus Trail:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/travel/hiking-through-biblical-backcountry.\
html

Nebraska:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/travel/buffalo-the-pawnee-and-an-old-story-\
on-a-trip-across-the-plains.html
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BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A stolen atlas turns up in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/27/books/swedish-royal-library-recovers-stolen-15\
97-atlas-in-new-york.html?ref=arts

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
The Citi Money Gallery has opened up at the British Museum:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56191#.T_A2zJFD2So
http://www.cityam.com/the-capitalist/coins-are-cool-the-british-museum-display

Another Roman coin collection is coming to auction:

http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/local/elmbridgenews/9777345.Thames_Ditto\
n_man_s_Roman_coin_haul_to_be_auctioned/

There were a couple issues of the eSylum this week:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n26.html
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n27.html

… and one will presumably still show up later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n28.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Painted Stories:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/arts/28iht-conway28.html

Cleopatra:

http://laist.com/2012/06/29/explore_the_myth_and_mystery_of_cle.php

DSS:

http://www.hadassahmagazine.org/site/apps/nlnet/content.aspx?c=twI6LmN7IzF&b=672\
5377&ct=11798153

Visions of Arcadia:

http://www.delconewsnetwork.com/articles/2012/06/26/life/doc4fea1c9ca66fe6733091\
05.txt

Quilts and Context in the Civil War:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/arts/design/homefront-battlefield-at-american-\
textile-history-museum.html

London: 1500-1700:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/arts/design/folger-library-traces-londons-rise\
.html

1812:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/arts/design/1812-a-nation-emerges-at-national-\
portrait-gallery.html

Recovered Treasures:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/stolen-cultural-treasures-on-displa\
y-in-paris/?ref=design


Bronze:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jun/25/bronze-exhibition-royal-acade\
my-sculpture

Good news for Boston MFA’s African Collection:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/museum-of-fine-arts-boston-gets-a-t\
ransformative-gift-for-its-african-collection/?ref=arts

Interesting bit of 17th century ‘war photography’ coming to auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/arts/design/van-de-velde-war-painting-from-160\
0s-goes-on-sale.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Berlioz Requiem:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/arts/music/colin-davis-conducts-the-berlioz-re\
quiem-at-st-pauls.html

Berlioz’ Troyens:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/27/arts/music/les-troyens-at-the-royal-opera-hous\
e-in-london.html?ref=arts

L’Olympiade:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/25/arts/music/garsington-operas-olympiade-by-viva\
ldi-in-england.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Paula Hays Harper:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/arts/design/paula-hays-harper-feminist-art-his\
torian-dies-at-81.html
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PODCASTS
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http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HUMANS
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Evidence from Yemen suggests human habitation there some
63 000 years b.p.:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2012/07/early-humans-se\
ttled-in-arabia-some-55000-years-ago/1#.T_jJfZFD2So

More on sediba’s diet:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120627131931.htm
http://www.livescience.com/21218-humanity-origins-woodlands.html
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AFRICA
================================================================
Islamists have done a heck of a lot of damage to sites and
monuments in Timbuktu (the newsdaily stuff is a series):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/02/mali-islamists-attack-world-heritage\
-mosques-timbuktu
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre85t04e-us-mali-crisis/
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre86008z-us-mali-crisis
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre8600ec-us-mali-crisis
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre8610jq-us-mali-crisis/
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre8620r5-us-mali-crisis-timbuktu/
http://news.yahoo.com/timbuktu-tomb-destroyers-pulverise-islams-history-15174782\
2.html
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2012/07/islam-vs-history#continued (some
photos)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
We are again being told that groundwater threatens the Sphinx and
pyramids:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/46972/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egypts\
-Sphinx,-Pyramids-threatened-by-groundwater,.aspx

Paper on Egyptian systems of measurement:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0033895


Plans in Egypt to develop archaeology as a ‘resource’:

http://213.158.162.45/~egyptian/index.php?action=news&id=26640&title=New%20antiq\
uities%20project

Egypt honoured a man who foiled a theft from a mosque:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/46889/Heritage/Islamic/Egypts-antiq\
uities-ministry-honours-man-who-foiled.aspx

Finds from various periods at Sidon:

http://dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2012/Jul-04/179284-excavations-reveal-th\
e-forgotten-cultural-treasures-of-sidons-past.ashx#axzz1zd9xf9sL

They’re digging at Gordion:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/us-instructors-work-on-anatolias-phrygian-capit\
al.aspx?pageID=238&nid=24842&NewsCatID=375


Ongoing concerns for Babylon:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/modern-curses-threaten-iraqs-ancient-\
wonder-of-babylon/story-e6frg6so-1226414757427

… and Gomel Gorge:

http://www.aina.org/news/20120610192141.htm

Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a synagogue floor with a
Samson mosaic:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56295
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1946
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-mosaic-depicting-fiery-bible-story-discovered-1638\
28071.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4250656,00.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-02/biblical-samson-torches-fox-tails-in-an\
cient-synagogue-mosaic.html
http://www.livescience.com/21331-ancient-mosaic-bible-story-samson.html
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=275996
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=57321
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/07/02/3099656/ancient-synagogue-floor-unear\
thed-in-israel
http://www.timesofisrael.com/ancient-synagogue-and-mosaic-unearthed-in-galilee/

Plans to dig at Abel Beth Maachah:

http://www.sgvtribune.com/news/ci_21022342

They’ve reopened the site of Mt. Gerezim:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/157561
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=P4fzcuLNBuY

Israel recovere four purloined Torah scrolls:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/157486


Latest from Tell es-Safi/Gath:

http://gath.wordpress.com/

Someone went on the dig at Huqoq:

http://www.thehawkeye.com/story/dig-070612

The arguing over goings-on at the Dome of the Rock continues:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4250300,00.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4250692,00.html

More on the dispute over the ‘Phoenician’ port at Beirut:

http://www.bikyamasr.com/71515/controversy-over-beiruts-phoenician-port/

Folks might want to play around with the cuneiform
translator:

http://www.virtualsecrets.com/assyrian.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
A Bronze Age workshop site from Cyprus:

http://www.incyprus.com.cy/en-gb/Blogs/4324/28740/bronze-age-workshop-found

A truck accident of sorts revealed a couple of Roman tombs
in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=141040

A Roman sarcophagus from the waters of Antalya:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Sea+surrenders+pristine+Roman+sarcophagu\
s+/26909
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/submerged-roman-sarcophagus-found.aspx?pageID=2\
38&nID=24721&NewsCatID=375

A large Roman necropolis from Norfolk:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-18693970

Excavating a mosaic at Chedworth Roman Villa:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-18701698


Chichesters is getting a Roman bath museum:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-18737604

Looking for Roman remains at Ewell:

http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/2116601_video_ewell_dig_looks_for_roman_settle\
ment_remains

They’ve completed restoration work on some of the mosaics at Piazza
Armerina:

http://nordonart.wordpress.com/2012/07/04/beautiful-mosaics-at-italian-world-her\
itage-site-restored/

The modern incarnation of the Nemean Games is getting attention:

http://ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite3_4_25/06/2012_448882
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2012/jul/06/reviving-olympic-spirit-nemean-game\
s?newsfeed=true
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/video/2012/jul/06/greece-alternative-olympics-n\
emean-games-video?newsfeed=true

I think we’ve mentioned there’s going to be hockey at the Pula Amphitheatre:

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=637274

Keeping ancient Greek music alive:

http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/3/56805

Feature on ancient Greek dog names:

http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2012/07/names-of-dogs-in-ancient-greece.html

The Classics Confidential folks interview Andrew Reinhard:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufEAJJJq2sY&feature=em-uploademail

An interviewish thing with Madeline Miller:

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/interview-madeline-miller-20120705-21i\
3k.html
http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/interview-madeline-miller-20120705-\
21i3k.html

They’re back digging at Gabii:

http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.ca/

Those centurion types are still causing a kerfuffle at the Colosseum:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9372317/Costumed-centurions-resist-eviction-from\
-Colosseum.html

More on the Arch of Titus Restoration Project:

http://www.jstandard.com/content/item/arch_of_titus_restoration_project_proves_c\
olorful/23794

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
I think we first heard of this a few years ago, but it’s in the news again …
Britain’s/Europe’s  ‘Atlantis’:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-18687504
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2167731/Britains-Atlantis-North-s\
ea--huge-undersea-kingdom-swamped-tsunami-5-500-years-ago.html
http://www.christianpost.com/news/doggerland-europes-atlantis-found-by-researche\
rs-77633/
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/doggerland-the-real-atlantis-just-off\
-scotland-1-2388819

… and of course, the Russian Atlantis wants attention too:

http://rbth.ru/articles/2012/07/04/discovering_the_russian_atlantis_16089.html

On the DNA front, some poking around was done on some ‘cavemen’
from Spain (7000 years b.p.):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/28/cavemen-bones-dna-humans_n_1636289.html

Also from Spain … a Neolithic bow:

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00433.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_med\
ium=twitter


3000 years b.p. bog mummies from Scotland:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07/120706-bog-mummies-body-parts-fr\
ankenstein-ancient-science/

… and in other bogs news, one in Denmark has at least 200 bodies:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/au-aea070312.php
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre86215m-us-denmark-bones-sacrifice/
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/07/03/us-denmark-bones-sacrifice-idINBRE86215\
M20120703
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2012/an-army-sacrificed-in-a\
-bog

Iron Age finds at a construction site in East Yorkshire:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-18703752

Danish archaeologists believe they have found Sliasthorp:

http://sciencenordic.com/legendary-viking-town-unearthed

Searching for the site of the Battle of Lewes:

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9793063.The_hunt_is_on_for_the_Battle_of_Lewes/?r\
ef=rss


A ninth century manuscript of Gregorian chant:

http://news.holycross.edu/blog/2012/06/29/music-professor-to-present-rare-resear\
ch-in-rome/

Metal detectorist finds from various periods declared treasure:

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/objects_found_by_metal_detectorists_in_norfolk_decla\
red_treasure_trove_1_1434475

On Napoleonic invasions and Irish independence:

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/archaeologists-dig-up-clue-to-early-inde\
pendence-bid-3161620.html

Nice feature on Phillipe Charlier’s work:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/07/world/europe/philippe-charlier-frances-forensi\
c-sleuth.html

Not quite sure where to put this one ... hitherto unknown variant of a
Waldseemuller map found in Munich (being spun in various ways for the US
holiday):

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/munich-researchers-discover-lost-m\
ap-of-america-a-842268.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18700489
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00442.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9373115/500-year-old-\
birth-certificate-of-America-discovered.html

They’re building a castle using old school methods in Friesach:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120703120533.htm

Robin Hood’s burial place is up for sale:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/9356914/For-sale-a-piece-of-Robin-Hood-histo\
ry.html

Anxiously awaiting the Lindisfarne Gospels:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-18665248


A North Pennine archaeology project gets some funding:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-18690259

Feature on the La Draga site:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2012/7500-year-old-spanish-l\
akeside-site-reveals-a-wealth-of-organic-finds

Marking a lost Jewish cemetery in Oxford:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-18695239

Feature on the Statues of Iona:

http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/07/citizenship-and-statutes-iona

More on that woman + cow burial:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2167864/Archaeologists-discover-e\
xtremely-rare-burial-site-Anglo-Saxon-woman-sacrificial-cow.html

A video from Archaeology Day in Macedonia/FYROM:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgZAA6FKxV4

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
China’s earliest wine from a tomb in Shaanxi:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-07/06/c_123377142.htm

The Korean alphabet was in use some 3000 years b.p.:

http://m.yna.co.kr/mob2/en/contents_en.jsp?cid=AEN20120702003500315&domain=3&cty\
pe=A&site=0100000000&mobile

Archaeologists have restored a 5300 years b.p. Mongolian
statue:

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsworld.php?id=678799

Quite a bit of coverage of a major  antiquities bust in Pakistan:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56394#.T_lSVJFD2So
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18738909
http://paktribune.com/news/Sindh-Police-seize-illegally-dug-antiquities-251284.h\
tml
http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=163676
http://dawn.com/2012/07/06/karachi-police-seize-illegally-dug-gandhara-antiquiti\
es/

… and it sounds like it might be an ownership dispute?:

http://dawn.com/2012/07/08/ownership-claim-kp-archaeologists-to-examine-artefact\
s-seized-in-karachi/
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012%5C07%5C08%5Cstory_8-7-2012_pg\
7_12

More on that oldest pottery from China:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/science/oldest-known-pottery-found-in-china.ht\
ml

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Latest from Jamestown:

http://www.stolaf.edu/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=NewsDetails&id=5336

A Fremont structure from Jamestown:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/01/utah-dig-unearths-large-fremont-indian\
-structure/

Digging a Schoharie Creek (NY?) site:

http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story/An-archaeological-dig-reveals-people-l\
ived-in/ZHvYF02lEkGi8qpjfZ9UKw.cspx

Latest finds from the DeSoto site near Orange Lake:

http://www.ocala.com/article/20120707/ARTICLES/120709794/-1/health?Title=Artifac\
ts-The-De-Soto-site
http://www.ocala.com/article/20120707/ARTICLES/120709790/-1/health?Title=De-Soto\
-discovery-could-change-history-books

Hype for a TV show about the Mantle site and that mysterious European
ax found there:

http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/1222889--how-did-huron-wendat-get-cu\
rsed-european-axe-a-century-before-european-contact

Feature on assorted studies of Mormon history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/books/mormon-studies-attract-more-scholars-and\
-attention.html

Fort Ticonderoga is acquiring some Revolutionary War items:

http://www.saratogian.com/articles/2012/07/04/news/doc4ff3932ef2222761362953.txt


Review of Michael Lind, *Land of Promise*:

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/land-promise-michael-lind?utm_source=The+New+Repu\
blic&utm_campaign=e6077dcc5e-TNR_BA_070512&utm_medium=email

Interesting blog post on what might have/should have (?) been
US Independence Day:

http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/04/12547657-john-adams-says-youre-\
two-days-late

… and there’s a typo in the Declaration itself (?):

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-typo-declaration-independence.html

You can purchase the place where George Washington went for
a beer:

http://blog.sfgate.com/ontheblock/2012/07/04/happy-4th-historic-george-washingto\
ns-party-house-on-the-market/

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A ‘sundial’ and other Wari artifacts from Ayacucho:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/ancient-relics-discovered-in-\
peru-report/story-fn3dxix6-1226414668286
http://www.france24.com/en/20120701-ancient-relics-discovered-peru-report

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Audio news from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews1jul12.mp3


A hundred sketches are being attributed to Caravaggio for some
reason:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9379884/Caravaggio-discovery-to-\
find-100-new-works-is-simply-astonishing.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvyB1SWnjSk&feature=em-uploademail
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56358#.T_ljm5FD2So
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9379713/Italian-art-historians-f\
ind-100-Caravaggio-paintings.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18732331
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/italian-art-historians-\
claim-they-have-found-100-early-caravaggios-7918085.html

cf:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56376#.T_lmhJFD2So
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/07/arts/design/drawings-said-to-be-caravaggios-ra\
ise-doubts.html
http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/07/06/actualidad/1341603997_114253.html



A putative claimant to the throne of England passed away:

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/man-king-dies-aged-71/story-16496831-detai\
l/story.html

On the effects of translation on the interpretation of the Koran:

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-law-religion.html

Feature on Grace Aguilar:

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=276364

Feature on syphilis:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2012/searching-for-ancient-s\
yphilis-dna-in-newborns
http://phys.org/news/2012-07-ancient-syphilis-dna-newborns.html


Since I don’t have the patience to wait for all these to trickle out
to the newsstream, here are all the new items on the UNESCO
World Heritage list:

http://whc.unesco.org/en/newproperties/

Medieval Archaeology vols. 1-50 have been made available:

http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/med_arch/

We’re apparently still feeling the effects of *pre-industrial* carbon
emissions:

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-pre-industrial-emissions-temperatures.html

Some other things that happened on July 4th:

http://news.discovery.com/history/other-historic-things-july-4-110704.html


Arguing over the sale of a Constable:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/spanish-aristocrats-go-to-war-ove\
r-22m-sale-of-constable-painting-7906915.html

More on Amelia Earhart:

http://news.discovery.com/history/amelia-earhart-tighar-lockheed-electra.html

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Athens:

http://travel.usatoday.com/alliance/cruises/avidcruiser/post/2012/07/Picture-Pos\
tcard-From-Athens-A-Day-At-The-Acropolis/798567/1
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BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Some purloined artifacts are being returned to Afghanistan:

http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/06072012-looted-items-ret\
urn-afghanistan

Arrests in the theft of the Codex Calixtinus:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/04/four-arrested-spain-codex-calixtinus
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18720178
http://boingboing.net/2012/07/04/medieval-codex-calixtinus-reco.html(useful
links)
http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2012/07/06/galicia/1341578412_168935.html
http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/07/05/actualidad/1341477349_291484.html
http://blogs.elpais.com/paco-nadal/2012/07/una-idea-peregrina-esconder-el-c%C3%B\
3dice-calixtino.html

A doctor was caught selling phoney ancient coins:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/prominent-hand-surgeon-pleads-guilty-selling\
-phony-ancient-coins-undercover-federal-agent-article-1.1107240
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/03/4608268/ri-doctor-guilty-in-ny-rare-coin.html

Someone robbed the graves of Brahms and Strauss of some teeth:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/9369242/Thief-robs-grav\
es-of-Johannes-Brahms-and-Johann-Strauss.html
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-teeth-brahms-strauss-\
20120702,0,2032720.story

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A hoard of English Civil War coins has been declared treasure:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-18670989

Continuing excitement over that Jersey hoard:

http://www.thisisjersey.com/news/2012/07/07/coin-hoard-yet-to-give-up-its-secret\
s/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-18725712


Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n28.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n29.html


Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Titian 2012:

http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_06_29/79710295/

DSS:

http://www.news-journal.com/news/state/fort-worth-seminary-displays-dead-sea-scr\
olls/article_734f18ff-05ec-52c7-b7d3-1da2657a7b66.html

DSS (different):

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120707/NEWS01/307050056/Dead-Sea-Scrolls-ex\
hibit-unites-manuscripts-Cincinnati-history


Vague item on a Viking exhibition coming to the BM:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/viking-exhition-for-british-museum-1-2393272

The BM is sending things overseas to deal with funding shortages:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-museum-sends-artefacts-ov\
erseas-as-uk-funding-falls-7912681.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HUMANS
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‘Karabo’ is the most complete Sediba fossil found so far:

http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/New-sediba-bones-found-20120712
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/07/13/ct-scans-reveal-earl\
y-human-fossils-inside-rock/
http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/article00465.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120712162744.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/93963\
33/Most-complete-skeleton-of-ancient-relative-of-man-found.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-07-safrican-scientists-pre-human-skeleton.html


… with plans to live stream the extraction of the fossil, probably
in November:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0712/Recovery-of-most-complete-skeleton-of\
-human-ancestor-to-be-streamed-live
http://www.slashgear.com/archaeologists-to-live-stream-recovery-of-fossilized-sk\
eleton-13238465/
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AFRICA
================================================================
Earliest evidence of domesticated sheep and goats in S. Africa:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120711210237.htm
http://phys.org/news/2012-07-ancient-domesticated-oldest-southern-africa.html

Dam construction threatens sites in the Sudan:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Sudan-relics-at-risk-from-dam-floods/267\
97

Nigeria is trying to repatriate artifacts from a pile of
museums:

http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/29792/2012/07/15/nigerian_american_museums_loc\
k_horns_over_stolen_artefacts.html

The destruction continues in Timbuktu:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/07/13/156715515/destruction-of-timbuktu\
s-treasures-continues-humanitarian-crisis-looms

… but:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iU96UXIXD4-Czv4Tq39MhCc-rkmQ?\
docId=CNG.6bcdf8f05326b4ae4bce436a4f2829db.5d1
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A major project to document all of Egypt’s sites:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/46726/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Major-\
project-to-document-all-Egypts-sites-starts-.aspx

Latest mummy CT scans:

http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/news/localnews/9810066.Ancient_mummies__secrets\
_revealed/

Somewhat vague item on Byzantine tombs being found in Byblos:

http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2251587&Language=en

A major Crusader hoard of gold coins from a castle in Arsuf:

http://news.discovery.com/history/gold-coin-israel-found-roman-crusade-ancient-1\
20711.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/157609
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48154827/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/-year-o\
ld-hoard-gold-coins-dug-crusades-site/
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/10/gold-coins-from-time-crusades-found-in\
-israeli-ruins/

Latest on the gardens/plants at Ramat Rachel:

http://israel21c.org/social-action-2/the-secret-life-of-plants-in-an-ancient-roy\
al-judean-garden/

Still looking for the lost tombs of the Maccabees:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-lost-tombs-of-the-maccabees-is-an-archaeologica\
l-mystery-close-to-solution/


Latest in the Iraq v US Jewish archive dispute:

http://english.cri.cn/6966/2012/07/15/2821s711904.htm

They’re poking around the sewage system at Persepolis:

http://www.cais-soas.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=365:1\
0-07-2012&catid=64

Latest in the Dome of the Rock kerfuffle (varies in focus):

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/police-admit-permitting-arab-const\
ruction-at-temples-foundation-stone-for-six-years/2012/07/12/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/157606
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=276879

The guy who found Rabbi Yehoshua’s grave was convicted:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/244645#.UAKWgpHJ2So

We are reading of calls to destroy the pyramids:

http://www.meforum.org/3283/destroy-egypt-pyramids

A summer institute at Baylor is looking at Biblical manuscripts and papyri:

http://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=118176

What Stuart Miller is up to:

http://www.jewishledger.com/2012/07/q-a-with-prof-stuart-s-miller-uconns-judaic-\
studies-program-enters-new-phase/

More (and varied) coverage of the Huqoq mosaic find:

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-byu-professor-grad-rare-mosaic.html
http://asorblog.org/?p=2619&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=heritage-\
fellow-helps-discover-ancient-mosaic-showing-samson
http://asorblog.org/?p=2638&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=several-c\
enturies-of-glass-in-one-summer
http://www.waxahachietx.com/apnews/texas/trinity-researchers-help-excavate-mosai\
c-floor/article_925d7258-c9f7-11e1-aa56-0019bb2963f4.html
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=56295
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Roman finds from Silchester:

http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/local/9815815.Dig_unearths_Roman_finds/\
?ref=rss
http://www.thisishampshire.net/news/9815815.Dig_unearths_Roman_finds/

Evidence of a temple to Demeter at Selinunte:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/italy/2012/07/11/Archaeologists-\
unearth-temple-Demeter-Sicily_7174433.html

Roman sarcophagus from the waters off Turkey:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/submerged-roman-sarcophagus-found.aspx?PageID=2\
38&NID=24721&NewsCatID=375
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Sea+surrenders+pristine+Roman+sarcophagu\
s+/26909

… and a sculpture of Artemis:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/sculpture-found-in-ancient-city-.aspx?pageID=23\
8&nID=25265&NewsCatID=375

… and a Roman ‘fertility eagle’:

http://www.selkirkweekendadvertiser.co.uk/news/local-headlines/roman-fertility-e\
agle-dug-up-1-2394870

cf:

http://rogueclassicism.com/2012/07/13/roman-fertility-eagle-from-selkirk/

In praise of ruins:

http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/104636/hed?id=Tz8lj9VMfl46U5rMpjS8T3C0\
rMaMtrGhAMDCE5IjMFT9SdqtyvMmiAm5ZSdcyhpr


Funding for Arbeia Roman Fort:

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/lifestyle/entertainment/roman-fort-digs-gets-400-0\
00-boost-1-4727511

ROM video on the baths of Caracalla:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe3WEEpeHVs&feature=em-uploademail

Greek dog names:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/07/how-ancient-greeks-named-their\
-puppies/

Alexander the Great from a Persian perspective:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18803290

What Tom Sienkewicz is up to:

http://www.reviewatlas.com/news/x236225412/MC-s-Sienkewicz-is-co-editor-of-book-\
honoring-educator

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Finds from various periods at Inverness:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-18840754

Strange ‘frankenstein mummies’ from off the coast of Scotland:

http://www.livescience.com/21464-frankenstein-mummies-mix-body-parts.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07/120706-bog-mummies-body-parts-fr\
ankenstein-ancient-science/
http://www.slashgear.com/science-baffled-by-frankenstein-monster-mummies-1123815\
6/
http://io9.com/5924174/scotlands-two-mummified-bog-bodies-are-the-frankenstein-r\
emains-of-six-different-people


A Byzantine site is being dubbed the ‘Bulgarian Herculaneum’:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=141220

More on the possible find of Sliasthorp:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07/120711-lost-viking-town-germany-\
archaeology-science/

They’re excavating a Swedish warship found last year (not sure
whether we’ve mentioned this one recently or not):

http://www.thelocal.se/41982/20120712/

A major climate study for 2000 years of European history (not sure
where to put this one):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120709092606.htm
http://phys.org/news/2012-07-climate-northern-europe-reconstructed-years.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2171973/Tree-ring-study-proves-cl\
imate-WARMER-Roman-Medieval-times-modern-industrial-age.html


Feature/tv hype on Britain’s greatest ‘treasures’ (i.e. things found
by metal detectorists):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/9400070/50-greatest-national-trea\
sures-revealed.html


They’re digging at Buckler’s Hard:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-18833901

Restoration work has been completed at Astley Castle:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-18779003

They’ve started the Stonehenge visitor centre:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-18782893
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/jul/11/stonehenge-facelift-a344-english-h\
eritage

A nice price fetched for a manuscript of the Laws of Hywel Dda:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-18784782

Review of R.I. Moore, *The War on Heresy*:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1074020.ece

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
3500 years b.p. burials from Iran:

http://www.payvand.com/news/12/jul/1065.html

Digging a first millennium B.C./B.C.E. necropolis in Azerbaijan:

http://en.trend.az/news/society/2045281.html

Satavahana era finds from Chikmagalur:

http://www.thehindu.com/arts/history-and-culture/article3621306.ece?homepage=tru\
e

Feature on smuggling antiquities in India:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article3640347.ece

Followups to that major bust in Pakistan last week:

http://paktribune.com/news/Elder-brother-of-antiquities-smuggling-suspects-nabbe\
d-251394.html
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012%5C07%5C11%5Cstory_11-7-2012_p\
g12_5
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jtjX0lE9R6hhUYW6EOCjnKQ9GegQ?\
docId=CNG.bec9407a904b1e6209bd31f9b0c9cce2.2f1

Not sure where to put this auction of some Indian artifacts via the East
India Company:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/09/tipu-sultan-papers-reveal-spoils

A French-Korean book settlement:

http://m.yna.co.kr/mob2/en/contents_en.jsp?cid=AEN20120709002700315&domain=3&cty\
pe=A&site=0100000000&mobile

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
DNA suggests the Americas were settled in three waves:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18770963
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/science/earliest-americans-arrived-in-3-waves-\
not-1-dna-study-finds.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-native-american-migrations-20120712,0\
,1827103.story
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/ucl-nap070912.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120711134710.htm
http://phys.org/news/2012-07-native-american-populations-descend-key.html


Excitement over some 13 000 years b.p. finds from Paisley Cave:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18814522
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/uoo-pcy070312.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120712141916.htm
http://phys.org/news/2012-07-paisley-caves-yield-year-western.html
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56490#.UAKiypHJ2So
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-paisley-caves-20120712,\
0,7874773.story
http://www.timescolonist.com/technology/Cave+tools+give+hints+ancient+Americans+\
spread+through+continent/6924032/story.html
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/07/12/3378531/stone-tools-focus-picture-of\
-ancient.html

The ‘New York’ of ancient Canada is getting some attention:

http://www.livescience.com/21494-ancient-mantle-site-discovered.html
http://www.livescience.com/21351-mantle-site-artifacts.html (photos)
http://news.discovery.com/history/mantle-new-york-canada-120710.html
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-york-city-canada-discovered-141209740.html

A Spanish coin find from Maine:

http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20120711%2FGJNEWS_01%2F70711\
9950%2F-1%2FFOSNEWS

Excavating a shipwreck of uncertain date from a Hilton Head
beach:

http://www.islandpacket.com/2012/07/13/2133813/usc-students-excavate-sea-pines.h\
tml
http://www2.wsav.com/news/2012/jul/13/shipwreck-found-hilton-head-island-ar-4129\
148/
http://news.yahoo.com/stone-tools-focus-picture-ancient-americans-180122569.html

ECU is excavating at Bath (not the one in England):

http://www.wdnweb.com/2012/07/12/209053/

Students are also digging a Fremont site in Utah:

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-life-utah-valley-years.html

They’re going to be digging at Fort William Henry again:

http://poststar.com/news/local/archaeology-project-returns-to-local-fort/article\
_78f98820-c9d3-11e1-8b10-001a4bcf887a.html

UTenn is excavating at Bell’s Bend:

http://www.newschannel5.com/story/19014281/archaeology-students-dig-bells-bend

A recently-signed transportation bill is going to affect
archaeology funding:

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/07/new-us-transport-law-limits-ar\
ch.html

Interesting footnote to that DeSoto site in Florida:

http://www.ocala.com/article/20120708/ARTICLES/120709765/-1/news05?Title=Archaeo\
logist-devises-elaborate-ruse-to-throw-off-looters

Feature on the Mormon view of American History:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/books/mormon-studies-attract-more-scholars-and\
-attention.html?ref=books


Someone was digging at Gettysburg:

http://www.abc27.com/story/18995967/officials-searching-for-relic-hunter-who-dug\
-holes-on-gettysburg-battlefield

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Fifteen Aztec-era burials from Mexico City:

http://news.yahoo.com/remains-15-found-ancient-mexican-settlement-224111649.html
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Remains-of-15-found-in-ancient-Mexican-settle\
ment-3705985.php
http://phys.org/news/2012-07-ancient-mexican-settlement.html
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/17-arqueologia/6006-hallan-en-azcapot\
zalco-vestigios-de-barrio-tecpaneca

Not sure if we mentioned this particular Lambayeque tomb find yet:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-14/ancient-pre-inca-tomb-found-in-northern-pe\
ru/4130652?height=100&ratio=1x1&width=100

A pile of antiquities were returned from the U.S. to Peru:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=56497

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
A lost Vivaldi piece is found:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jul/15/orlando-furioso-vivaldi-1714-version

Folks are having problems selling their antiquities:

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/want_to_buy_an_egyptian_sarcophagus_alan_\
dershowitz_is_eager_to_sell/

APOD of the Teimarah petroglyphs and starry things:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120712.html

Modern applications of stone age technology:

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-stone-age-tools-modern.html

… and hopes to learn from Justinian’s plague:

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-historic-epidemic-key-climate-plague.html

An 18th century robot:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/watch-18th-century-robotic-child-wri\
te-better-033248960.html

Jane Austen’s ring fetched a nice price at auction:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56454#.UAKoK5HJ2So

Trying to recreate Monet’s gardens:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/garden/giverny-in-four-square-feet-in-queens.h\
tml

On the variations in ‘proper’ English:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/a-matter-of-fashion/?hp

More on those purported Caravaggio drawings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/07/arts/design/drawings-said-to-be-caravaggios-ra\
ise-doubts.html?ref=design

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Rome:

http://www.iol.co.za/travel/world/europe/six-things-you-must-do-in-rome-1.133824\
1

Bozcaada:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/travel/on-a-turkish-isle-winds-tend-the-vin\
es.html?ref=travel

Following Dickens through Switzerland:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/travel/following-dickens-through-switzerlan\
d.html?ref=travel
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Interesting application of CT technology to ancient coins:

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-turbines-tetricus-technology-reveals-secrets.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/09/x-rays-reveal-secrets-roman-coins?\
INTCMP=SRCH
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2012/jul/12_106.shtml

Latest issue of the e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n29.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n30.html


Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Etruscans:

http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2012/07/13/scooch-over-rome-the-etruscans-anoth\
er-ancient-italian-civilization-conquer-montreal/

Translating Homer:

http://www.heritage.com/articles/2012/07/08/life/doc4ff9904ddc4ff628807444.txt

Gold, Jasper, and Carnelian:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/arts/design/johann-christian-neubers-gold-and-\
stone-bonbons-at-the-frick.html?ref=arts

Bellini, Titian, and Lotto:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/06/arts/design/bellini-titian-and-lotto-at-the-me\
tropolitan-museum.html?ref=design

Visions of Arcadia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/02/arts/design/gauguin-cezanne-matisse-at-philade\
lphia-museum-of-art.html?ref=design

Feature on the Israel Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/arts/design/the-israel-museum-in-jerusalem-ren\
ewed.html

Philadelphia is getting a Revolutionary museum:

http://news.yahoo.com/revolutionary-treasures-await-philly-museum-101213799.html

Problems for the Trenton City Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/arts/design/trenton-city-museum-faces-uncertai\
n-future.html?ref=design

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Farewell, My Queen:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/movies/farewell-my-queen-set-at-versailles.\
html?ref=arts

Ciro in Babylonia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/arts/music/ciro-in-babilonia-by-rossini-in-bel\
-canto-at-caramoor.html?ref=music

Macbeth:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/theater/reviews/alan-cumming-in-macbeth-at\
-lincoln-center-festival.html?ref=theater

Twelfth Night:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/07/06/theater/reviews/twelfth-night-from-new-yor\
k-classical-theater.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HUMANS
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A study of Neanderthal diet is stressing their use of medicinal plants:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07/120720-neanderthals-herbs-humans\
-medicine-science/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=neanderthals-may-have-s\
elf-medicate-12-07-20
http://phys.org/news/2012-07-neanderthals-knowledge-qualities.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120717084813.htm
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/neanderthals-ate-veg-and-used-medicine\
-research-20120719-22boo.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120718131348.htm
http://news.discovery.com/human/neanderthals-used-medicine-dnews-nuggets-120718.\
html
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/18/12816708-scientists-find-medicin\
al-plants-caught-in-neanderthal-teeth?lite

… while another study was looking at their right arms (with many outlets
spinning this one in a strange way):

http://www.livescience.com/21682-neanderthals-arm-strength.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-07-unique-neandertal-arm-morphology-due.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/19/neanderthal-men-strong-right-arm-scrapi\
ng_n_1685655.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0719/Why-did-Neanderthals-have-such-humong\
ous-right-arms-video
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/19/why-neanderthals-sported-arms-like-pop\
eye/
http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/neanderthal-man-was-a-domestic-go\
d-1.1344774
http://www.history.com/news/big-neanderthal-arms-caused-by-making-clothes-study-\
suggests
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/evolution/9408700/Neanderthals-macho-image-ma\
y-be-wrong.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2175470/Neanderthals-actually-hom\
e-bodies-spent-time-doing-chores.html
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/world/macho-neanderthal-man-a-new-age-man/\
story-fnddckzi-1226429670057
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/neanderthal-mans-life\
-of-domesticity-7956993.html

… and another at their various injuries:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/07/neanderthals-werent-stone-age-r\
odeo-riders/

Folks were also looking at Australopithecus Amarensis’ diet:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120717084813.htm

An interview with Chris Stringer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/science/chris-stringer-on-the-origins-and-rise\
-of-modern-humans.html

More on Karabo and the streaming of his ‘recovery’:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/recovery-of-a-fossil-in-s-africa-to-b\
e-streamed-online-allowing-public-to-chime-in/2012/07/12/gJQADRTffW_story.html
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AFRICA
================================================================
Not sure if we’ve mentioned this cave in Namibia with evidence of
domestication of animals:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/science/cave-yields-early-record-of-domestic-a\
nimals.html

OpEd on trying to recover Benin artifacts from Boston:

http://www.ligali.org/article.php?id=2305

Latest from Timbuktu:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18870130
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Interesting study of the topography at Dashur:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528743.500-pharaohs-playground-revealed-\
by-missing-fractals.html

Egyptian archaeologists are suggesting some purportedly looted
objects are fakes:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/48007/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egypto\
logists-refute-video-claims-about-artefacts-.aspx

A mummified rat is going on display:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/47725/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Return\
ed-rare-sarcophagus-of-mummified-rat-to-be-d.aspx


Another week, another mummy gets the CT treatment:

http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/BMI-Shirley-Oaks-Hospital-staff-solve-myster\
y/story-16529224-detail/story.html

Huffington Post was wondering what Zahi Hawass was up to:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/16/golden-mummies-what-happe_n_1677919.htm\
l

Discussing who really deciphered hieroglyphs:

http://blog.oup.com/2012/07/who-deciphered-egyptian-hieroglyph/


Digging Boncuklu Hoyuk:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-16/ancient-village-holds-lifestyle-clues-for-\
archaeologists/4130628


Plenty of  coverage of further confirmation of a Hellenistic harbour find
from Akko/Acre (originally found in 2009);

http://news.discovery.com/history/haifa-ancient-harbor-120717.html
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Akkos-ancient-harb\
or-exposed-17-Jul-2012.htm
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56625
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=277867
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/ancient-port-discovered-in-acre-1.4518\
05
http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-akko-a-2300-year-old-naval-pier-emerges-from-the\
-sea/
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/157939

On Turkey’s repatriation efforts:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/turkey-waging-art-war-to-repatriate-ar\
tifacts-from-foreign-museums-a-845159.html

Feature on Limantepe Archaeology Park:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/random-discovery-results-with-the-first-archeo-\
park.aspx?pageID=238&nID=25789&NewsCatID=375


Theft is increasing at sites in Israel, apparently:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_ido.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1951\
&module_id=#as

The dig at Azekeh has a blog:

http://azekah.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/first-day-10/


It never ends at Temple Mount:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158062
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/157973
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=277807
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/245066
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/244748

More from Huqoq:

http://asorblog.org/?p=2683&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=report-on\
-mosaics-discovered-at-huqoq-in-israel
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Plenty of  coverage of further confirmation of a Hellenistic harbour find
from Akko/Acre (originally found in 2009);

http://news.discovery.com/history/haifa-ancient-harbor-120717.html
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Akkos-ancient-harb\
or-exposed-17-Jul-2012.htm
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56625
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=277867
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/ancient-port-discovered-in-acre-1.4518\
05
http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-akko-a-2300-year-old-naval-pier-emerges-from-the\
-sea/
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/157939


Latest from Silchester:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/19/olive-stone-pre-roman-britain

A Roman cemetery from Great Ellingham:

http://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/news/roman-cemetery-discovered-in-great-el\
lingham.htm

More from Bourgas:

http://sofiaglobe.com/2012/07/17/archaeology-golden-medallions-from-roman-era-fo\
und-in-village-near-bulgarias-bourgas/


Feature on the Whitehall Roman Villa dig:

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/features/glass-bones-pots-and-stones-the-\
story-of-the-whitehall-roman-villa-dig-in-northamptonshire-1-4074620

A purloined Roman sarcophagus was seized in Switzerland:

http://www.thelocal.ch/page/view/2944

The Stoa of Attalos has opened to the public again:

http://ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_18/07/2012_452611

On colds and Roman expansion:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2012/07/colds-and-conquests-how-a-\
health-crisis-may-have-spurred-roman-expansion/

National Geographic just found the Palmyra story from a month or
so ago:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07/120717-palmyra-roman-city-syria-\
science-farming-world-ancient/

Trying to boost tourism at Knossos:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_13/07/2012_452040

Feature on the Pantheon:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444330904577536883373712916.html?m\
od=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_6

Feature on restoring a Roman boat:

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Altro/?id=3.0.3580005755

Nice video from the Classics for All folks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2udC0SZo98&feature=youtu.be

Michael Scott talks about Delphi:

http://youtu.be/tHsGbaxgknU

David Potter on ancient and modern sport:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjesQPqM_yo

On the sound of ancient music:

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/what-did-ancient-music-sound-like/

Drinking rituals at the Getty:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish/2012/07/getty-villa-offers-lecture-on-\
greek-drinking-rituals.html

Honours for Gillian Clark:

http://bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8667.html


On the ancient Olympics:

http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/inquirer/20120722_Olympian_myths.html

… and hype for the soon-to-be-heard Olympic Ode:

http://zeenews.india.com/sports/softspot/special-ode-composed-for-london-olympic\
s_745896.html

… and ancient statuary thereat:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/steve_rushin/07/18/statues/index.h\
tml


A metal detectorist reminisces:

http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/lifetime-helped-uncover-largest-Roman-settleme\
nt/story-16552859-detail/story.html


They’ve extended the opening hours at various sites in Greece:

http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/1/57106

That lego Colosseum story still has legs:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175142/I-new-appreciation-Romans-Profes\
sional-Lego-builder-creates-astonishing-model-Romes-Colosseum-using-200-000-bric\
ks.html?ito=feeds-newsxml


Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Iron Age finds from Inverness:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-18840754

Finds from various periods during water main construction in
Somerset:

http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/news/historic_finds_in_new_water_main_dig_1_14\
50223


Plenty of interest in some Renaissance lingerie/a bra from Austria:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/austrian-archaeologists-announce-d\
iscovery-of-medieval-bras-at-castle-a-845397.html
http://www.sfgate.com/living/article/600-year-old-linen-bras-found-in-Austrian-c\
astle-3716403.php
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/18/medieval-bras-discovered-austrian-ca\
stle
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9410358/Austria-finds-15\
th-century-bras.html
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/600-year-old-linen-bras-found-austrian-castle
http://phys.org/news/2012-07-year-old-linen-bras-austrian-castle.html
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56620#.UAveCqDJ2So

Finds from various periods discovered during the construction of Olympic
Park are now on display:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56630#.UAvYz6DJ2So


The Happisburg hand axe has been declared ‘Britain’s top treasure’ by the
BM (tv hype, of course)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/9417089/Prehistoric-axe-is-Britai\
ns-top-treasure.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9397722/Bettany-Hughes-on-Britains\
-Secret-Treasures.html

Feature on Britain’s first black community in Elizabethan London:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18903391

A WWI submarine off the Turkish coast:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2160577/Sunken-treasure-First-World-war-\
submarine-captains-won-Victoria-Cross-discovered-Turkish-coast-94-years-holed.ht\
ml

Progress of a project in Cyprus restoring Byzantine churches:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/innovative-restoration/innovative-restoration-byzanti\
ne-churches/20120721

The Ness of Brodgar Excavations has a dig diary:

http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/nessofbrodgar/

Some Cambridgeshire archaeologists have garnered awards for their work:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-18827844

Review of N Wilson, *The Elizabethans*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/books/review/the-elizabethans-by-a-n-wilson.ht\
ml?ref=books

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
The BM has returned some items to Afghanistan:

http://inthesetimes.com/ittlist/entry/13552/20_years_later_looted_artifacts_retu\
rned_to_afghanistan/
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article3662717.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9412272/Stolen-artefacts-returne\
d-to-Afghanistan-by-British-Museum.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18901966
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/jul/17/german-circumcision-a\
ffront-jewish-muslim-identity

A warrior burial from China’s Three Kingdoms period:

http://www.livescience.com/21610-three-kingdoms-tomb-holding-warrior-discovered.\
html

Again we’re being told the Great Wall was even longer:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-wall-20120718,0,642604\
7.story

Plans for DNA studies to determine the origins of the peoples of SE Asia
and Australia:

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-dna-analysis-ancient-uncover-mysteries.html

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Excavating an 1852 shipwreck from Coos Bay:

http://democratherald.com/news/state-and-regional/shipwreck-excavated-at-coos-ba\
y/article_d78c63cb-dfd9-5001-9fb6-c62e40e0f26a.html

The 1864 wreck of the Syracuse may have been found in
Lake Huron:

http://www.cheboygannews.com/features/x246332676/Shipwreck-found-suspected-to-be\
-Syracuse

A community dig at John Moore Farm:

http://www.wbng.com/news/local/Digging-Up-the-Past-162928206.html

Using forensic dogs to search for a Native American site in Ocotillo:

http://www.ivpressonline.com/news/ivp-dogs-search-for-ancient-remains-on-wind-fa\
rm-project-site-near-ocotillo-20120717,0,2447573.story
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of a pyramid/temple discovery at
El Zotz (Guatemala):

http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2012/07/masks
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120718122833.htm
http://phys.org/news/2012-07-el-zotz-masks-yield-insights.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07/120720-maya-temple-el-zotz-masks\
-faces-science-houston/
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/ancient-mayan-night-sun-temple-found-guatemala-19335942\
8.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/365504/20120721/maya-civilization-night-sun-ma\
yan-temple-history.htm
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/ancient-mayan-night-sun-temple-found-guatemala-19335942\
8.html

A Maya dam from Tikal:

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-archaeologists-uncover-largest-ancient-built.html
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00470.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/uoc-urr071612.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120716191443.htm

A cinnabar workshop from Ranas:

http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/17-arqueologia/6015-descubren-entierr\
os-milenarios-en-la-sierra-gorda

Learning from a Maya water system:

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/a-mayan-water-system-with-lessons-for-\
today/

Not sure if we’ve mentioned these 1500 years b.p. burials associated somehow
with the Tepanec people:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56554#.UAvfEqDJ2So

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Audio news from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews15jul12.mp3


Plenty of interest, of course, in the possible discovery of the bones
of Mona Lisa (to be followed, presumably by decades of ‘no they aren’t’/
‘yes they are’):

http://news.discovery.com/history/mona-lisa-skeleton-120718.html
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/world/archeologists-uncover-mona-lisa-mode\
ls-remains/story-fnddckzi-1226428689373

http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2012/07/19/the-search-may-have-ended-for-mona-l\
isa%E2%80%99s-bones/
http://www.edotmagazine.com/archaeologists-have-discovered-the-skeleton-of-the-m\
ona-lisa

An up-and-coming archaeologist died while on a dig in Turkey:

http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/archaeology-researcher-found-dead-in-turkey/
http://www.telegram.com/article/20120721/NEWS/107219942/1160/SPECIALSECTIONS04&s\
ource=rss
http://www.wbur.org/2012/07/20/archaeology-researcher-found-dead-in-turkey
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/07/20/boston-university-student-studying-in-turk\
ey-killed-in-apparent-fall/

They’re thinking of calling off the search for Amelia Earhart’s plane:

http://news.discovery.com/history/earhart-plane-search-hope-fades-120720.html#mk\
cpgn=rssnws1

Pondering rabies:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/science/searing-narrative-of-rabies-and-the-de\
speration-to-forget-it.html


The genetics of Bounty descendents might shed light on myopia:

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre86j080-us-myopia-bounty/


A new theory for the Titanic:

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-grappling-titanic-mystery.html

On the origins of pants:

http://blog.chron.com/hoofbeats/2012/07/whence-came-pants/

On the mythology behind Star Wars:

http://wamc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/dr-carl-rubino-hamilton-college-s\
tar-wars-and-mythology


Italy’s most philosophical town?:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/17/corigliano-dotranto-italy-philosophi\
cal-town?newsfeed=true


Interesting story of a 19th century Russian grandmother:

http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeatures/Article.aspx?id=278163

… and an interesting ‘mystery’ photo album:

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/uncovering-the-past-of-a-mystery-christ\
mas-present/

Some recent exam howlers:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/9411182/Exam-howlers-reveal-Stalins-sausage\
-roll-plan.html

Forgeries v copies:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/arts/design/ken-perenyi-art-forger-now-sells-h\
is-work-as-copies.html?ref=arts

On being a curator:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/arts/design/as-the-art-world-grows-so-does-the\
-curators-field.html?ref=arts

On being a curator under communism:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/pushkin-museum-head-on-why-russia-shou\
ld-keep-looted-german-treasures-a-844109.html

The worst book of history:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/and-the-worst-book-of-history-is/?r\
ef=books

More messing with the classics:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/07/19/arts/ap-us-books-sexing-the-classics.\
html

Not sure if we mentioned this climate study in our haste last week:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/10/global_warming_undermined_by_study_of_cl\
imate_change/

… or this ‘outcast artifact’ piece:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/arts/design/antiquity-market-grapples-with-str\
icter-guidelines-for-gifts.html

Review of Michael Sapol, *Hidden Treasure*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/science/hidden-treasure-at-the-national-librar\
y-of-medicine.html

Review of Rebecca Scott, *Darwin’s Ghosts*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/books/review/darwins-ghosts-by-rebecca-stott.h\
tml?ref=books

Review of Sarah McPhee, *Bernini’s Beloved*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/books/review/berninis-beloved-by-sarah-mcphee.\
html?ref=books

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Italy:

http://www.thestar.com/travel/article/1228927--european-travel-taking-the-kids-t\
o-italy-just-for-fun
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Dispute over a possible Greek coin forgery sale:

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/07/19/48517.htm
http://usa.greekreporter.com/2012/07/20/ancient-greek-forged-coin-battles-it-out\
-in-chicago-court/

Nice feature on Switzerland’s efforts to control smuggling:

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/Closing_in_on_the_archaeological_underworld.\
html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Latest issue of the e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n30.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n31.html

More on that Crusader gold find:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2171883/Treasure-Crusaders-stand-\
Pot-gold-worth-300-000-fortress-buried-doomed-Christian-knights.html
http://www.haaretz.com/news/crusader-gold-cache-found-near-israeli-coastal-city.\
premium-1.449428
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2171883/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Immortal Gods of Greece:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2012/07/20/immortal-gods-of-greece-exhibition-hosted\
-by-munich-based-museum/

Fayum portraits:

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=8522
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-18888096

Staffordshire Hoard:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-18929922

Hudson River School:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/nyregion/on-hudson-at-the-florence-griswold-mu\
seum-in-old-lyme.html

cf:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/nyregion/a-review-of-edward-hopper-early-nauti\
cal-scenes.html



Shakespeare:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/9407821/British-Museum-to-display-Robben-Isla\
nd-copy-of-Shakespeares-works.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/jul/17/british-museum-shakespeare-exhibit\
ion-robben-island


A dish from the Mildenhall treasure is going to Ipswich:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-18921427
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/ipswich_priceless_roman_dish_to_go_on_show_at_town_mu\
seum_1_1449871

Feature on some recent Old Master sales:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/arts/14iht-melikian14.html

Some negative press (?) for the Titian show:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2174036/Titian-peepshow-brings-unwelcome\
-audience-National-Gallery.html

A new head at the Rose Art Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/arts/design/brandeis-names-new-head-for-rose-a\
rt-museum.html

Record number of visitors to the Met this year:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/metropolitan-museum-of-art-draws-re\
cord-number-of-visitors/

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Buxton Festival:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/18/arts/18iht-loomis18.html

Timon of Athens:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4b4d258c-d0b1-11e1-8957-00144feabdc0.html

Metamorphoses Titian 2012:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/arts/dance/metamorphosis-titian-2012-at-the-ro\
yal-ballet.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Assessing the ‘cowboy style’ injuries of Neanderthals:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/07/neanderthals-werent-stone-age-r\
odeo-riders/

Now we’re being told it was a mysterious Neanderderthal ‘sister species’
which humans interbred with:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/science/cousins-of-neanderthals-left-dna-in-af\
rica-scientists-report.html
http://www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-features/64990-neanderthal-sister-specie\
s-interbred-with-us
http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/mystery-human-ancestor-found-in-african-ge\
nes/30223
http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/DNA-evidences-Neanderthal-sister-species-3\
739420.php
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/07/rethinking-modern-human-origins\
/

… and modern humans are again being blamed for Neanderthals’ demise:

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-modern-humans-greater-threat-neanderthals.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hfwgtaBmeB40p8bGISjWpvz6bRqA?\
docId=CNG.3fab33c2e7c8facc2c3351763af178e8.4b1
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/07/24/did-modern-humansnot\
-environmental-catastropheextinguish-the-neandertals/
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/07/new-study-suggests-humans-not-\
climate-killed-off-neanderthals/
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/humans-a-greater-neanderthal-threat-s\
tudy/story-e6frfkui-1226433458590
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2177767/Guilty-We-killed-Neandert\
hals---ice-age-like-previously-thought-hoped.html

Neanderthal diet suggests they knew the medicinal properties of some plants:

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/neanderthals-people-were-cooks-an\
d-medics-says-study.htm
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/bill-mcclellan/turns-out-neanderthals\
-ate-their-vegetables/article_3b042c7e-aa4e-5ab4-beb7-fe8248fed956.html

John Noble Wilford interviews Chris Stringer:

http://video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/science/1194811622277/index.html
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AFRICA
================================================================
The US returned some antiquities to Nigeria:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/14035254-418/us-returns-antiquities-to-niger\
ia.html
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-statues-smuggled-nigeria-return-home-002844756.htm\
l

… and Nigeria wants more from the Boston MFA:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/nigeria-wants-museum-of-fine-arts-b\
oston-to-return-trove-of-benin-artifacts/

OpEddish on Timbuktu:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18968508

On DNA studies in Africa:

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-whole-genome-sequencing-africa-hunter-gatherers-elu\
cidates.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A French team has found the funerary boat of the pharaoh Den:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/48641/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/First-\
Dynasty-funerary-boat-discovered-at-Egypts-A.aspx
http://phys.org/news/2012-07-french-archaeologists-unearth-pharaoh-boat.html
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2012/Jul-26/181993-archaeologists-uneart\
h-pharaonic-solar-boat.ashx
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=53572
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/french-archaeologists-unearth-pharaoh-boat-160334114.ht\
ml
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178839/5-000-year-old-wooden-boat-used-\
pharaohs-discovered-French-archaeologists.html

Someone has suggested merging the culture and antiquities ministries in
Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/48771/Egypt/Politics-/Ministries-of\
-culture-and-antiquities-can-be-merge.aspx

… but archaeologists don’t like the idea:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/48850/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Mainta\
in-independent-antiquities-ministry,-Egypts-.aspx


A ‘mysterious’ 3200 years b.p. lion statue(s) from Karakiz (Turkey):

http://www.livescience.com/21838-ancient-lion-statutes-turkey.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48327084/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-life-size-lion-statues-baffle-scientists-175738865\
.html
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-life-size-lion-statues-baffle-scientists-175738865\
.html
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/27/ancient-life-size-lion-statues-baffle-\
scientists/

Iron age ‘ritual platforms’ from North Khorasan (Iran):

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/252236.html

Pithoi full of burnt wheat found during excavations at Tel Hatzor
National Park:

http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=278651

… which in some accounts is being connected to Joshua:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/3000-year-old-wheat-corroborates-biblical-narrative\
-archaeologist-claims/

Feature on Gath:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/biblical-archaeology-behind-the-headlines/


Nice feature on the Aleppo Codex:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/magazine/the-aleppo-codex-mystery.html


Somewhat vague item on excavation of underwater sites near Siraf:

http://en.trend.az/regions/iran/2049681.html

A while back we mentioned some group was calling for the destruction
of the pyramids … that was a hoax, apparently:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/world/middleeast/in-egypt-rumor-of-pyramids-de\
mise-proves-flimsy.html
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/raymond-ibrahim/huffington-post-msm-facilitate-dest\
ruction-of-egypt%E2%80%99s-pyramids/2/

Another one on the ongoing threat to Syrian antiquities:

http://www.france24.com/en/20120726-syria-smoking-citadels-shelled-castles-confl\
ict-heritage-sites-danger


This week’s developments at Temple Mount (different):

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/244306
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/245583


More on Crusader gold from Arsur:

http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=17005
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/afot-hoc072612.php
http://phys.org/news/2012-07-hoard-crusader-gold-uncovers-trove.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120726122129.htm
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Archaeologists have reconstructed/raised the roof at the House of the
Telephus relief:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/23/house-telephus-relief-roman


Interesting course in Rome to learn Latin and Greek:

http://www.romereports.com/palio/learning-latin-greek-and-hebrew-in-rome-english\
-7388.html

Posthumous honours for John Geyssen:

http://www.thedailyobserver.ca/2012/07/21/educator-receives-posthumous-honour

Interpol thinks items stolen from Olympia last year might show up at the
Olympics:

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/olympics--interpol-to-target-thieves-at-games-who-s\
tole-priceless-olympic-artifacts-from-greek-museum-20120724.html

Earlier this week I collated a pile of news items on the Ancient
Olympics:

http://rogueclassicism.com/2012/07/27/ancient-olympics-compendium/

… to which can be added a couple of items from History Today:

http://www.historytoday.com/david-gribble/gold-silver-and-bronze-ancient-olympic\
s
http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/07/visitor%E2%80%99s-guide-ancient-olympic\
s


Boris Johnson recited Armand D’Angour’s ode:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/new-ode-in-ancient-greek-for-2012-1-2428175
http://www.standard.co.uk/olympics/olympic-news/ode-dear-boris-steals-the-show-a\
t-starstudded-gala-for-olympic-committee-7972527.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-greek-olympic-ode-120723.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2012/jul/23/boris-johnson\
-ancient-greek-ode
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2012/120723_1.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9420192/London-2012-Olympics-Bori\
s-Johnson-to-recite-Olympic-Ode-in-ancient-Greek.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-18929408


… and here’s the text, if you want to try yourself:

http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/arts_at_oxford/120723.html

Latest journalist foray into Roman numerals:

http://www.livemint.com/2012/07/19200852/I-ask-for-nothing.html

A mini-feature on that head of Claudius found at Suffolk years ago:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/picture/2012/jul/20/head-of-claudius-stor\
y-british-art

Police have recovered a Roman sarcophagus which was stolen some
20 years ago:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Outstanding+Roman+sarcophagus+recovered+\
after+more+than+20+years/26947

Review of Michael Kellogg, *The Greek Search for Wisdom*:

http://galvestondailynews.com/story/330970

More coverage of the Silchester dig:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2012/luxury-food-and-pampere\
d-pooches-in-iron-age-britain

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Some Upper Paleolithic ceramics from Croatia:

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-archaeologists-uncover-palaeolithic-ceramic-art.htm\
l
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00487.html

Also from Croatia … a 6500 years b.p. hunting trophy:

http://www.croatiantimes.com/news/General_News/2012-07-25/28522/6,500_year_old_h\
unting_trophy_found_in_eastern_Croatia

Pondering whether a tsunami hit the Kerry coastline in medieval times:

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Kerry-island-structure-may-be-due-to-tsunami-wa\
ves-in-medieval-times-163836556.html

A Celtic tomb from 500 B.C. which was raided by Himmler turns out to have
more in/near it:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/celtic-treasures-found-near-tomb-1163640

A medieval nit comb from Enniskillin:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18998749

Not sure where to put this one … a ‘perplexing’ find at a nunnery/Roman
site in Alderney:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-19027764

Not sure what date these ‘early’ Christian tombs from Serbia are:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/entertainment/2012/07/27/Archae\
ology-Serbia-31-early-Christian-tombs-discovered_7245554.html


Some medieval banking records found hidden beneath some coats
of arms:

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-qm-historians-medieval-banking-hidden.html

Berlin has a 450 year old debt with another German town:

http://news.yahoo.com/cash-strapped-berlin-stalked-450-old-debt-122001949.html

Assorted items of interest in an online stained glass magazine called
Vidimus:

http://vidimus.org/issues/issue-62/feature/

Plans to restore Guernsey’s Brehon Tower:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-18968803

Some idiots graffitied Wolsey’s Gate in Ipswich:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-18987611

They’ve set up a statue of Alice Nutter:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-19028459

Latest guy up for exhumation: Garibaldi:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19006337

Review of Paul Murphy, *Shooting Victoria*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/books/review/shooting-victoria-by-paul-thomas-\
murphy.html

More on medieval lingerie:

http://www.historyextra.com/lingerie
http://www.timescolonist.com/life/fashion-beauty/Archeologist+finds+year+bras/69\
64051/story.html

More on European climate:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120709092606.htm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
All chickens seem to have their roots in Asia:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9432623/All-chickens-descend-fro\
m-south-east-Asia.html

A New York art dealer had a pile of purloined Indian (and other)
antiquities in his apartment:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/art_cops_dig_up_fruit_of_the_tomb_e\
K1TWZ28mwC0p6X7zR9edI
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/investigators-seize-antiquities-tho\
ught-stolen-from-india/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/28/arts/design/us-asks-museums-to-examine-collect\
ions.html

The UK is returning a pile of antiquities to Afghanistan:

http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/48884/massive-artwork-return-to-kabul-museum/

Not sure how old this one is (the date seems to change every day) … on the
threat
to antiquities in Pakistan:

http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/illegal-digs-threaten-pakistan-s-\
buddhist-past-1.1346250

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Fossilized feces might give a clue about modern Native Americans’
susceptibility to type II diabetes:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/uocp-ffy072412.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120724104434.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-poop-gives-clues-modern-diabetes-epidemic-11305668\
2.html
http://sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/2012/07/24/actualidad/1343156987_723109.html

Possible Native American remains found during highway construction
in Wisconsin:

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/0a50efc9efc543c2a9ed788e00958f0c/WI--Road-\
Construction-Ancient-Remains

An early courthouse being excavated in Stafford (Va):

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Archaeologists-uncover-early-Va-courthouse-37\
26934.php

Some pre-Penn timbers from Philadelphia:

http://articles.philly.com/2012-07-28/news/32907408_1_timbers-trench-hertz

I think we mentioned this Coos Bay shipwreck (survivor) site last week:

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/viewart/20120721/NEWS/120720034/1852-shipwreck-e\
xcavated-Coos-Bay

… but I’m not sure whether we ever mentioned this feature on some
petroglyphs
near the Rio Grande:

http://discovermagazine.com/2012/may/11-decoding-ancient-secrets-of-white-shaman

Big bucks for a Chief Joseph war shirt:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/chief-joseph-war-shirt-fetches-877500-auction\
-16833212

More on multiple migrations to North America:

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-mystery-native-americans.html

================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A trio of 1000 year b.p. tombs from MonteAlban in Oaxaca:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56687

A new way of studying an Incan mummy revealsshe had a lung
infection at the time of death:

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-ancient-mummy-lung-infection-proteomics.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/plos-amh072312.php

They’re resuming the search for evidence of the real Captain Morgan:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/26/500-year-old-rum-archaeologists-search\
-for-real-captain-morgan/


On the dangers of digging in Mexico of late:

http://www.archaeology.org/1207/letter/mexico_cerro_de_trincheras_paqume_casas_g\
randes.html

A metal library find from Ecuador … sounds  a little too much
like some lead codices we’ve heard about in the past:

http://socyberty.com/activism/legendary-metal-library-found-in-tayos-cave-in-ecu\
ador/

Port Royal is getting heritage status:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18601357

They’ve reconstructed the face of Simon Bolivar:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18977143

More on the finds at El Zotz:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07/120720-maya-temple-el-zotz-masks\
-faces-science-houston/

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Video news from the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Audio news from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews22jul12.mp3

Nice feature on LiDAR:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/remote-scanning-techniques-revolut\
ionize-archaeology-a-846793.html
http://freeinternetpress.com/story/Revolutionizing-Archaeology-Flying-Lasers-Rev\
eal-Buried-Historical-Structures-35538.html

Folks might be interested in the Looted Heritage project:

http://electricarchaeology.ca/2012/06/08/mining-the-open-web-with-looted-heritag\
e-draft/

Studying language evolution (sort of):

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-science-english-evolution.html

Rare Book School sounds interesting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/books/rare-book-school-at-the-university-of-vi\
rginia.html

… see also:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/the-rare-book-scholars-secret-weapo\
n/

This one’s being spun in various ways, but it’s actually about the
plausibility of an Irish epic:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120725090933.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/25/beowulf-shakespeare-plausibl\
e-fiction?newsfeed=true
http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/7346191/Deciphering-myths-into-legends
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/9423516/Beowulf-and-Iliad-more-plausible-than\
-Shakespeare.html

cf:

http://rogueclassicism.com/2012/07/25/on-the-plausibility-of-the-iliad-and-socia\
l-networks/

‘Citizen Scientists’ are doing genetic stuff in Europe:

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-citizen-science-european-genetic-heritage.html

On relations to Vlad the Impaler:

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-basarab-surname-vlad-impaler.html

A pile of manuscripts from the Bodleian are coming to New York:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/06/uk-exhibition-manuscripts-idUKBRE86510\
E20120706

Interesting method of recreating the world’s oldest record:

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/07/02/worlds-oldest-record-recreated-using-a-print\
ed-photograph/

Feature on patois/patwah:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2012/07/24/patwah-patois/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Beit Guvrin Caves (Israel):

http://www.jpost.com/Travel/AroundIsrael/Article.aspx?id=279038
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Latest edition of the e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n31.html

… and the one which will appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n32.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Antico:

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/jul/25/antico-recasting-ancients/

Pure Gold:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/a-bible-lands-museum-exhibit-thats-pure-gold/

A Taste for Impressionism:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/arts/21iht-melikian21.html

Ladies of the Trianon:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/a-close-look-at-the-ladies-of-versa\
illes/

Michael Brand on why he was ousted:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Ex-director-of-Getty-Museum-reveals-why-\
he-was-ousted/26926

The Louvre’s Islamic galleries will be opening in September:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/louvres-new-islamic-galleries-to-op\
en-in-september/

Feature on the Russia Bible Museum:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-russia-bible-museum-20120723\
,0,7968987.story
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Tartufe:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/nyregion/a-review-of-tartuffe-at-westport-coun\
try-playhouse.html

Richard III:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/nyregion/murder-at-rikers-with-lines-by-shakes\
peare.html

Fen Yi Ting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/28/arts/music/feng-yi-ting-at-lincoln-center-fest\
ival.html

I Briganti:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/arts/25iht-loomis25.html?ref=arts

A Doll’s House (and Ten Billion):

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/arts/25iht-lon25.html

I Caupuleti e i Montecchi:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/arts/music/i-capuleti-e-i-montecchi-at-caramoo\
r-international-music-festival.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal

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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Lou Bolchazy:

http://www.meaningfulfunerals.net/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=1545080&fh_id=\
13417

Herbert Vogel:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/arts/design/herbert-vogel-postal-clerk-and-mod\
ern-art-collector-dies-at-89.html
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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More on that ‘sister species’:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/342711/title/DNA_hints_at_African_cou\
sin_to_humans
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AFRICA
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Modern culture emerged in Africa some 20 000 years earlier than previously
thought:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-modern-culture-africa-2\
0120730,0,4412702.story
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19069560
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120730155047.htm
http://phys.org/news/2012-07-onset-date-south-africa-stone.html
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56821
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/south-african-cave-find-pushes-stone-age-\
industry-back-to-44000-years/story-fnd134gw-1226439306287
http://news.yahoo.com/researchers-modern-culture-may-earlier-start-171918659.htm\
l
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/08/the-origins-of-modern-culture/

… and the Onion’s spin:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/human-culture-much-older-than-thought,29024/

Interesting finds from a mass grave site in Malindi:

http://www.the-star.co.ke/local/coast/88081-malindi-archaeologists-make-new-disc\
overies

Plans for the Oranjemund shipwreck:

http://allafrica.com/stories/201208040080.html

On the threat to African artifacts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/arts/design/african-art-is-under-threat-in-dje\
nne-djenno.html


More on the return of some purloined Nigerian artifacts:

http://www.livescience.com/21891-nigeria-nok-statues-smuggled.html

… and a followup item:

http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/31738/2012/08/05/senate_committees_standpoint_\
illicit_artefacts_trafficking_others.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Some mummies from the British Museum are the latest to get the CT scan
treatment:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9446224/CT-scan-unmasks-\
the-secrets-of-the-mummies.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2182010/The-mummy-unmasked-Medica\
l-scans-amazing-images-ancient-Egyptians.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2182010/Student-uses-hospital-sca\
nner-uncover-ancient-secrets-7-Egyptian-artefacts-British-Museum.html

They’ve opened up some more tombs in Egypt to get more tourist interest:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/in-egypt-archeologists-open-new-\
tombs-to-woo-tourists/2012/07/28/gJQAsK8fHX_print.htm


Some Egyptian artifacts were recoveredat the international bridge in Laredo
(!):

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56790
http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=782264#.UB5ZqKDJ2So
http://www.pro8news.com/news/local/Egyptian-Artifacts-Discovered-At-World-Trade-\
Bridge-164332276.html


As might be expected after years of reading this sort of thing, there is
much
hype attending a seal depicting (maybe) Samson:

http://news.discovery.com/history/seal-may-give-substance-to-samson-legend-12080\
3.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/9438668/Israeli-scho\
lars-claim-possible-evidence-of-Samson.html


Interesting claim of an unsubstantiated find of victims of the destruction
of
Jerusalem in 70 A.D./C.E. (the second one provides additional detail):

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5216
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5278
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158417

Latest from the Tel Azekeh dig:

http://azekah.wordpress.com/

… see also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5I9dJZ9fTk

A Neolithic mass grave site in Turkey is being hyped as evidence for early
humans
having a “feminine” (or compassionate) side:

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-stone-age-feminine-side.html

The folks working on the Tayinat Archaeological Project uncovered a massive
statue of Suppiluliuma:

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-archeologists-unearth-extraordinary-human-sculpture\
.html
http://media.utoronto.ca/media-releases/environment-natural-resources/archeologi\
sts-unearth-extraordinary-human-sculpture-in-turkey/
http://news.discovery.com/history/royal-statue-hittite-120731.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/trending/2012/07/31/giant_human_statue_discovered_in_\
turkey_dates_back_to_1000_b_c_.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0730/Colossal-human-sculpture-unearthed-in\
-Turkey
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/31/giant_statue_vandalised_by_assyrians_fou\
nd/

Feature on Canadian involvement at Tel es Safi:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/07/29/f-israel-bronze-age-cities-canadia\
n.html

… and here’s the latest from the dig blog:

http://gath.wordpress.com/

Not quite sure where to put this one on medieval Jewish scribes in various
parts of the world:

http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=279843

Latest strategy to preserve Egyptian heritage:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/49419/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Revise\
d-strategy-to-preserve-Egypts-heritage-Retur.aspx

This week’s installment of Temple Mount:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158387

More on that Egyptian funerary boat find:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1109/he1.htm
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
The Colosseum is getting a facelift, we are told (again):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/31/rome-colosseum-25m-facelift
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19064763
http://www.scotsman.com/news/international/colosseum-in-line-for-19-6m-revamp-1-\
2443054
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9442005/Colosseum-restora\
tion-project-gets-go-ahead.html

Remains of a Roman road near a pub in Colchester:

http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/local/9845037.Roman_road_found_beneath_the_St\
ockwell_Arms/

Fires threatened the Golyamata Kosmatka mound site in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=141982

Searching for the Gigli helmet:

http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/9853339.Decades_delving_into_Greek_helme\
t_puzzle/

Remains of a ‘luxury villa’ from Kourion:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/kourion/ancient-luxury-villa-found-kourion/20120802
http://www.incyprus.com.cy/en-gb/Blogs/4324/29291/curium-dig-is-finished

Pondering the future of Alderney Roman Fort:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-19067007

A Greek inscription from Plovdiv:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n284464

Greek, Roman, and Celtic artifacts found during Romanian highway
construction:

http://www.romania-insider.com/archeologists-unearth-celtic-artifacts-plus-ancie\
nt-roman-and-greek-silver-coins-on-future-track-of-romanian-highway/62275/

The Getty has a ‘Lion Attacking a Horse’:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444226904577561023846396232.html

Building a hotel around a Hellenistic mosaic in Turkey:

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/03/13103755-a-hotel-an-archaeology-si\
te-or-both

On the Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives program:

http://www.thebayonet.com/2012/08/01/338852/tour-highlighting-classical-literatu\
re.html

Boris Johnson reciting the Olympian Ode (full version):

http://rogueclassicism.com/2012/08/03/boris-johnson-orates-armand-dangours-olymp\
ian-ode/

More Silchester coverage:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/31/silchester-iron-age-roman-britain?INTCM\
P=SRCH

Review of Anne Carson, “Antigonick” (warning: beyond turgid prose):

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1093904.ece

More on Rome’s leaning Colosseum (did I mention this?):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9436250/Colosseum-in-need\
-of-urgent-support-as-one-side-is-15-inches-lower-than-other.html
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/leaning-colosseum-needs-urgent-fix/story-fnbzs1\
v0-1226439245363
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/30/colosseum-rome-leaning-officials-say\
?INTCMP=SRCH
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/italian-geologists-fear-iconic-roman-colos\
seum-leaning-article-1.1124678?localLinksEnabled=false
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre86s0lo-us-italy-colosseum/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/29/us-italy-colosseum-idUSBRE86S0LO201207\
29

More on that recovered Roman sarcophagus:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/roman-sarcophagus-found-after-20-years.aspx?pag\
eID=238&nID=26682&NewsCatID=375

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A dig at a Neolithic site on the Isle of Eday (Orkney) has a very detailed
dig diary under way as well:

https://sites.google.com/site/bevarsweb/dig-diary-1

Studying ancient evidence of earthquakes in Aquila:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120803131932.htm
http://phys.org/news/2012-08-ancient-italian-earthquakes-aquila-area.html

Medieval business wasn’t so greedy:

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/august/greed-middle-ages-080212.html

Feature on some Renaissance villas:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2181957/Italian-villa-The-palatial-rusti\
c-retreats-Renaissance-lie-abandoned.html

A 300 years b.p. skull from a shipwreck off Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/42190/20120723/

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
We’re starting to hear from museums who purchased items from that
dealer busted a week or so ago:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/nga-admits-buying-from-disgraced-dealer/sto\
ry-e6frg8n6-1226442632719
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/arrest-over-antiquities-20120\
803-23lii.html

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Interesting feature on that iron ax found at the Mantle site:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2012/07/29/for-indians-ax-marked\
-first-chapter-of-disaster.html

… see also:

http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2012/07/trade-during-late-prehistoric-perio\
d.html

They’re digging at Pike’s Cantonment:

http://pressrepublican.com/0100_news/x614300479/Archaeological-work-continues-at\
-Pikes-Cantonment

On St Augustine’s Lighthouse Archaeology program:

http://jacksonville.com/entertainment/2012-08-04/story/history-out-shifting-sand\
s-st-augustines-lighthouse-archaeological

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Evidence of chocolate use 2500 years b.p. from the Yucatan peninsula:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/9448460/Archaeologists-\
find-traces-of-2500-year-old-chocolate.html
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/16-antropologia/6048-descubren-cacao-\
de-hace-2500-anos-en-yucatan
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-maya-chocolate-20120803\
%2C0%2C5012936.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/experts-2500-year-old-chocolate\
-may-have-been-used-by-mayas-as-condiment-not-just-beverage/2012/08/02/gJQAWME0S\
X_story.html
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_MEXICO_ANCIENT_CHOCOLATE?SITE=AP&SECTI\
ON=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Tomb of a Maya prince from Uxul:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56841
http://phys.org/news/2012-07-tomb-maya-prince-mexico.html
http://www.sciencecodex.com/archaeologists_from_bonn_discover_in_mexico_the_tomb\
_of_a_maya_prince-95722

Nice feature/slideshow on women/children burial from Tepanec:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07/pictures/120731-aztec-burials-ch\
ild-sacrifices-mexico-city-science/

Reconstructing Simon Bolivar’s visage:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18977143

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Audio news from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews29jul12.mp3

On the use of SUAV (aerial drones) in archaeology:

http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2012/08/archaeological-mapping/
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Test_flight_over_Peru_ruins_could_revolutioniz\
e_archaeological_mapping_999.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-08-flight-peru-revolutionize-archaeological.html

… and how radioactivity is useful:

http://blog.oup.com/2012/07/radioactivity-science-vsi-tuniz/

The Bodleian has a project/appeal to get Shakespeare’s First Folio
collectively online:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19076860
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/aug/02/bodleian-shakespeare-first-folio-o\
nline

Honoring Flinders Petrie:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-jerusalem-a-crowd-turns-out-to-honor-an-archaeol\
ogical-giant-flinders-petrie/

Someone’s going to sail a Phoenician ship replica across the Atlantic:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9434701/British-adven\
turers-plan-to-sail-replica-of-Phoenician-sailing-boat-across-Atlantic.html

An interesting etymology piece (potentially offensive):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/30/the-word-fart-origins-etymology_n_17215\
85.html

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n32.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n33.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Antico:

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/jul/25/antico-recasting-ancients/

Folk Art in Four Directions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/arts/design/compass-folk-art-in-four-direction\
s-at-south-street-seaport.html

Century of the Child:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/arts/design/review-century-of-the-child-at-mom\
a.html?ref=design


The Paley collection is on its way to San Francisco:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/paley-art-collection-heading-to-the\
-de-young-fine-arts-museums-in-san-francisco/

Feature on the Buffalo Bill Museum in Wyoming:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/04/arts/design/buffalo-bill-museum-in-wyoming.htm\
l

The Sharing Treasures project:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-19051810


Review of a couple of exhibitions (Messerschmidt and Klimt) at the Getty:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-messerschmidt-klimt-r\
eview-20120804,0,7334040.story
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Timon of Athens/Richard III:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/arts/01iht-lon01.html

Maometto II:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/arts/music/a-rossini-masterwork-ahead-of-its-t\
ime.html?ref=arts

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal

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OBITUARIES
================================================================
James Mellaart:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9450610/James-Mellaart.html
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/catalhoyuk-sites-archaeologist-dies.aspx?pageID\
=238&nID=26946&NewsCatID=375
http://www.timeturk.com/tr/2012/08/01/anadolu-asigi-mellaart-oldu.html


John Keegan:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/john-keegan-dies-british-milit\
ary-historian-was-78/2012/08/04/3b0b29a4-de52-11e1-8e43-4a3c4375504a_story.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/books/sir-john-keegan-historian-who-put-a-face\
-on-war-dies-at-78.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443545504577565612993526428.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/9\
447744/Sir-John-Keegan.html

Brian Dobson:

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/9856129.Hadrian_s_Wall_expert_dies_aged_80\
/

Gene Smith:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/books/gene-smith-biographer-of-leaders-dies-at\
-83.html

Gore Vidal:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/books/gore-vidal-elegant-writer-dies-at-86.htm\
l
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/1235126--gore-vidal-celebrated-auth\
or-playwright-dies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/05/gore-vidal-origins-of-cold-w\
ar

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PODCASTS
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http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Possible new species named homo rudolfensis:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19184370
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/science/new-fossils-indicate-offshoots-in-huma\
n-family-tree.html
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/08/09/kenyan-fossils-rekin\
dle-debate-over-early-human-diversity/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/o-humanity-new-fossil-finds-show-a-new-hum\
an-species-roamed-paleolithic-article-1.1133030
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/08/09/researchers-say-theyve-discovered-new-hu\
man-species-from-fossils-in-kenya/
http://phys.org/news/2012-08-kenyan-fossils-early-human-evolution.html

… and I think this is talking about the same thing:

http://www.npr.org/2012/08/09/158501282/paleontologists-unearth-possible-pre-hum\
an-fossils

On meat eating and the development of brain capacity:

http://mg.co.za/article/2012-08-09-taste-for-meat-boosted-ancestors-brains
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/08/08/early-meat-eating-hu\
man-ancestors-thrived-while-vegetarian-hominin-died-out/

On walking upright:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/08/becoming-human-the-evolution-of\
-walking-upright/

Now a volcano is being blamed (partially) for Neanderthals’ demise:

http://phys.org/news/2012-08-invisible-volcanic-ash-clues-neanderthal.html
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
*editor’s note: Ha’aretz recently went to a payfer model wherein if you
are registered, you get ten free articles a month; as might be imagined,
I go through that in about a day, so much of what I include from Ha’aretz
I know only because of the headline. I am trying to find alternate sources
for the same story, but it isn’t always possible*

Some anomalies  in Upper Egypt spotted on Google Earth might be a
pyramid complex of some sort:

http://news.discovery.com/history/lost-egyptian-pyramids-found-120810.htm
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/08/12/231774.html

Feature on the Beni Hassan tombs project:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/46726/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Major-\
project-to-document-all-Egypts-sites-starts-.aspx


A number of severed hands have been found during excavations at Avaris:

http://www.livescience.com/22267-severed-hands-ancient-egypt-palace.html

Some Neolithic phallus thingies from Sha’ar HaGolan are now being
identified as ‘early matches’:

http://www.livescience.com/22267-severed-hands-ancient-egypt-palace.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19168047
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/ritual-error-it-s-a-match-not-a-phallu\
s.premium-1.456922
http://phys.org/news/2012-08-neolithic-tools-clues-climate.html

cf (the actual article):

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0042213


Also on the Neolithic front, the transition from hunting to agricultural
societies
parallels the development of woodworking tools:

http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=17065
http://phys.org/news/2012-08-neolithic-lumberjack.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/plos-ntp080612.php

cf (the actual article):

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0042442

A 3rd century C.E./A.D. image (relief) of a man from Susita:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158683

A Byzantine olive press from Hod HaSharon:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158681
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/not-just-roses-of-sharon-byzantine-oli\
ve-press-found-in-hod-hasharon.premium-1.456678



Feature on Domus Tepe:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2012/death-and-dying-in-neol\
ithic-near-east

Latest from Tell es-Gafi:

http://gath.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/great-article-in-haaretz-about-the-dig/

cf:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/looking-for-a-wider-view-of-history-israeli\
-archaeologists-are-zooming-in.premium-1.457254

Feature on what is being identified as the site of ancient Hiri:

http://www.startribune.com/world/165050496.html?page=all&prepage=1&c=y#continue


Some early photos of the Kotel are now online:

http://www.israeldailypicture.com/2012/08/the-kotel-exposed-with-advent-of.html

An article  on the mosaics (and other things) from Huqoq:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/fle368009.shtml


As might have been feared, sites in Syria are being damaged … e.g., the
citadel of Aleppo:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2012/Aug-11/184198-aleppo-citadel-h\
it-by-shelling-says-opposition.ashx#axzz23BbEcFXx

… in a similar vein:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-syrias-ancien\
t-treasures-pulverised-8007768.html
http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/what-will-happen-to-syria-s-dead-\
cities-1.1359522


An Israeli scholar has spent three decades coming up with the definitive
version of the Bible:

http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-scholar-completes-mission-fix-bible-063009279.html

… and, of course, the Temple Mount saga continues:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/timber-israel-blamed-for-falling-trees-on-temple-mo\
unt/

More on that statue of Suppiluliuma:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/science/3000-year-old-turkish-king-statue-demo\
nstrates-iron-age-creativity.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of a Roman shipwreck near Genoa with some intact
amphorae:

http://news.discovery.com/history/roman-shipwreck-amphorae-food-italy-120808.htm\
l
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/intact-roman-ship-found-coast-italy-articl\
e-1.1134109
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2185958/2-000-year-old-shipwreck-\
discovered-Italy-preserved-FOOD-intact.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19169983
http://www.batangastoday.com/2000-year-old-shipwreck-found-by-italian-police-div\
ers-video/24159/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19153732
http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/08/13188768-roman-ship-found-laden-wi\
th-cargo?lite
http://www.theage.com.au/world/sea-gives-up-a-portrait-of-ancient-rome-20120807-\
23sdr.html

… and another Roman shipwreck from Antibes:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2012/a-roman-shipwreck-in-th\
e-ancient-port-of-antibes

A 4th century B.C. tomb from Paestum:

http://www.stiletv.it/index.php/news/8266/Paestum_rinvenuta_splendida_tomba_del_\
IV_secolo_aC._%28ESCLUSIVA%29(Italian)


They’ve located some of Vindolanda’s piping system:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-19164918

Finds from various periods at Yersonisos:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/features/people-friendly-green-archaeology/20120812
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/yeronisos/ancient-amulets-toddlers-found-yeronisos/20\
120809


Plans to excavate another Thracian tumulus in Bulgaria:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n285021

Latest on the search for Cleopatra’s tomb:

http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/tourism/2012/8/9/44685/Fending-off-snakes-and-s\
corpions-Dominican-architect-seeks-Cleopatras

Josiah Ober on the Ancient Greek economy:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/08/ober_on_the_anc.html

The Acropolis Museum is looking at colorization of ancient statuary:

http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/49742/coloured-world-of-archaic-sculpture/


Hopes/plans to keep the Evesham Hoard in the county it was found:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-19151489
http://www.droitwichadvertiser.co.uk/news/local/9865471.Residents_urged_to_dig_d\
eep_to_keep_hoard_in_the_county/

There has been a wave of ‘ancient Olympics’ posts this week; I’ve gathered
them
together here:

http://rogueclassicism.com/2012/08/10/catching-up-with-the-ancient-olympics/

… to which may be added:

http://www.history.com/news/5-myths-about-the-ancient-olympics


There’s a major fire burning near Mt Athos:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2018879418_apeugreecewildfire.\
html

Latest on plans to repair the Colosseum:

http://www.france24.com/en/20120730-italys-leaning-colosseum-faces-new-delay-res\
toration
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/officials-set-colosseum-repair-dat\
e-december-16894677

Reviews of Anthony Everitt, *Rise of Rome*:

http://www.wbur.org/npr/157668413/a-story-of-ancient-power-in-the-rise-of-rome
http://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2012/08/anthony_everitts_the_rise_of_r.\
html

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Some early Christian graves near Maryport Roman Fort:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-19097827

Did a distant volcano lead to thousands of deaths in medieval London?:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/05/medieval-volcano-disaster-london-graves
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/08/09/thousands-of-13th-century-l\
ondoners-may-have-been-killed-by-a-distant-volcano/

A medieval silver hoard from Gotland:

http://www.thelocal.se/42422/20120804/

Remains of a medieval Jewish ‘toilet’ from Cologne:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/inscription-reveals-ancien\
t-jewish-toilet-in-cologne.premium-1.456380

Searching for a 12th century gatehouse in Warwick:

http://www.warwickcourier.co.uk/news/local/hunt-for-remains-of-12th-century-gate\
house-1-4146501

Remains of Anglo Saxon (?) warriors found during a Salisbury plain dig:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/06/soldiers-archaeology-somerset-discovery\
-afghanistan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-19147035

Sixteenth-century houses found after a fire in Cowgate:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-19170017

Not sure if we mentioned this Northumberland mill dig (which began last
year):

http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2012/08/11/new-evidence\
-of-northumberland-mill-is-unearthed-61634-31600712/

Plenty of Italian castles are for sale:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443517104577573432043902926.html

Semi touristy feature on what lies beneath Paris:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/02/world/europe/wus-france-catacombs/index.html

More on Italian earthquake data:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120803131932.htm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
A section of the Great Wall of China collapsed:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9461992/Great-fall-of-China\
-section-of-wall-collapses.html
http://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/great-wall-china-collapse-355/

Brief item on twelve sites found in South China Sea:

http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/cultural-relics-found-in-south-china-sea_790\
450.html

A possible pirate ship find in Tongan waters:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/tongafrenchpoly\
nesia/9463622/Divers-find-wreck-of-legendary-pirate-treasure-ship.html
http://www.news.com.au/news/tong-shipwreck-may-be-pirate-treasure-ship-port-au-p\
rince/story-fnelnuip-1226447132516


I thought we’d mentioned the return of Afghan artifacts by Britain already:

http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16147041,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/05/artefacts-returned-afghan-museum
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/9453685/Afghan-treasu\
res-repatriated.html
http://www.timesonline.com/news/world/asia/britain-returns-stolen-artifacts-to-a\
fghanistan/article_bef15d7f-e8b3-56dc-a194-9a88678d4e38.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/08/05/afghanistan-artifacts.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19116195


East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Traces of the ‘black drink’ which fueled some rituals in the 17th century
American
southeast:

http://news.discovery.com/history/vomit-drink-black-native-caffeine-120807.html#\
mkcpgn=rssnws1
http://www.livescience.com/22136-caffeinated-black-drink-first-city.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/uoia-rfe080112.php
http://phys.org/news/2012-08-black-scientists-evidence-ritual-caffeinated.html
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/early-american-caffeine-trade/


Remains of a Civil War encampment at the College of William and Mary:

http://www.startribune.com/nation/165737036.html

Excavating a 19th century community hospital site in Virginia City:

http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/apexchange/2012/08/08/nv--hospital-archaeolo\
gy-virginia-city.html

On why yellow fever had a “green bias” in the mid-19th century US:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120806131256.htm

Evidence of an early fur trading post near Edmonton:

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/technology/Footprint+trading+fort+found+Rossdale+\
Flats/7060600/story.html


Feature on a Utah collector of Native American artifacts:

http://www.standard.net/stories/2012/08/05/top-utah-man-glories-collecting-nativ\
e-american-artifacts

Assorted finds from a dig in Boise:

http://www.boiseweekly.com/Cobweb/archives/2012/08/10/treasures-unearthed-in-bas\
que-block-archaeological-dig

On the origins of Mormonism:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/08/13/120813crat_atlarge_gopn\
ik

A grant to study sites along the Potomac:

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/08/08/maryland-college-awarded-gr\
ant-to-study-potomac-river-archaeological-sites-127981

A 400 year old treaty dispute:

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/08/400_years_later_a_legendary_ir.ht\
ml

They’ve identified a shipwreck off Cape Henlopen:

http://phys.org/news/2012-08-shipwreck-mystery.html

The Florida Museum of Natural History’s online ceramics database might be of
use to some of our readers:

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/histarch/gallery_types/

================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A very interesting Aztec female burial from the Templo Mayor:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/08/mexican-archaeologists-discover-azte\
c-burial
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Mexico-finds-100s-of-bones-in-unusual-Azte\
c-burial-3770075.php
http://phys.org/news/2012-08-mexico-hundreds-bones-aztec-burial.html
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/17-arqueologia/6054-hallan-entierro-y\
-restos-de-arbol-sagrado
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56959#.UCer2aDJ2So

The Maya domesticated turkeys:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120809090706.htm
http://www.livescience.com/22222-ancient-mayans-domesticated-turkeys.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-08-earliest-mexican-turkeys-ancient-maya.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/uof-urd080812.php

An antiquities bust in Mexico:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/08/09/antiquities-seized-man-arrested\
-in-western-mexico/

Plans to search for ‘the treasure of Lima’:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/costaric\
a/9450737/British-expedition-to-Pacific-treasure-island-where-pirates-buried-the\
ir-plunder.html


More on using drones to map Peruvian sites:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19111257
http://phys.org/news/2012-08-drone-ancient-peru.html

More on Mayan chocolate use:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2184350/How-Mayans-used-chocolate\
-sauce-food.html?ITO=1490
http://phys.org/news/2012-08-experts-mayas-chocolate-spice.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Audio news from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews5aug12.mp3

Although Ontario-specific, this 3d digitizing of artifacts project seems
like
it will be used elsewhere, if it isn’t already:

http://phys.org/news/2012-08-future-students-digitize-archeological-artifacts.ht\
ml

Wordsworth as ‘management guru’:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/08/09/businesses-pay-british-professor-t\
each-them-about-wordsworth

Medieval clerics apparently didn’t like the celibacy thing:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120806085143.htm


Fundraising kept a Manet in the UK:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/aug/08/ashmolean-buys-manet-mademoiselle-\
claus
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/08/08/manet-britain.html

A possible DaVinci from a Scottish farmhouse (hmmmm):

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/possible-da-vinci-painting-found-scottish-f\
armhouse-could-183847385.html

… and an interesting feature on arguing about authenticity in the courtroom:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/arts/design/when-judging-arts-authenticity-the\
-law-vs-the-market.html

Duke University has acquired Joshua Herschel’s papers:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/duke-acquires-papers-of-abraham-jos\
hua-heschel


BYU’s multi spectral imaging project:

http://lib.byu.edu/sites/scholarsarchive/college-of-humanities/byu-multi-spectra\
l-imaging-project/

Crossing bison and cattle didn’t have the anticipated effects:

http://phys.org/news/2012-08-reveals-impact-historical-domestic-cattle.html

A genetic map of how North African jews fit into the picture:

http://www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?id=280344
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre8751ei-us-genetics-jews/

Evidence of a cold spell some 3000 years before the ‘Little Ice Age’:

http://phys.org/news/2012-08-cold-europe-years-ice-age.html

Not quite sure where to put this ‘chinese bear paw’ piece:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/dining/the-french-explore-the-art-of-chinese-c\
ooking.html

The Huntington Free Library is trying to figure out what to do:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/nyregion/private-library-labors-to-be-relevant\
-again.html

… and a different sort of DNA thing (interesting story):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-19012179

Reviewish of several books on the depiction of (African) slaves in history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/arts/design/elvis-presley-auction-books-on-dep\
ictions-of-slaves.html

Review of Craig Brown, *Hello, Goodbye, Hello”:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/books/hello-goodbye-hello-by-craig-brown.html

More on medieval attitudes toward greed:

http://phys.org/news/2012-08-greed-middle-ages.html


Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Santorini:

http://www.rrstar.com/updates/x1568953258/Lauras-Postcard-Learning-of-Greeces-an\
cient-citizens
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Big bucks for an 1873 US dime:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9467086/US-dime-from-\
1873-sells-for-1.6-million.html
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/1873-dime-sells-for-a-pretty-penny-1-6-mi\
llion-3777692.php

Latest issue of the e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n33.html

… and the one which will appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n34.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Folk Art in Four Directions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/arts/design/compass-folk-art-in-four-direction\
s-at-south-street-seaport.html

Joan Miro:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/arts/design/joan-miro-the-ladder-of-escape-at-\
national-gallery.html

Willem van Aelst:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/arts/design/willem-van-aelst-still-life-painti\
ngs-at-national-gallery.html

Feature on Nicosia’s Leventis Museum:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/loukia-loizou-hadjigavriel/managing-treasure-trove/20\
120810

Feature on the ‘Adoration of the Magi’ at the Museum of Biblical Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/arts/design/the-adoration-of-the-magi-at-museu\
m-of-biblical-art.html
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Bronte: A Portrait of Charlotte:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/theater/reviews/bronte-a-portrait-of-charl\
otte-by-alloy-theater.html

Love’s Labour’s Lost:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/theater/reviews/loves-labours-lost-at-huds\
on-valley-shakespeare-fest.html?ref=theater

Tempest:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/theater/reviews/the-tempest-presented-by-s\
hakespeare-company.html

York Mystery Plays:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19180093

Coriolanus:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/theater/reviews/coriolanus-from-shakespear\
e-in-the-park-ing-lot.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal

================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Gene Smith:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/books/gene-smith-biographer-of-leaders-dies-at\
-83.html

Roy Bryce Laporte:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/nyregion/roy-bryce-laporte-who-led-black-studi\
es-program-at-yale-dies-at-78.html

Lou Bolchazy:

http://camwsnecrologies.blogspot.com/2012/08/ladislaus-joseph-bolchazy-1937-2012\
.html

John Keegan:

http://www.npr.org/2012/08/07/158367338/fresh-air-remembers-military-historian-j\
ohn-keegan

Jacques DesAutels:

http://cac-scec.ca/ccb/ccb18/ccb18_11.1.html

Amos Hakham:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/prime-minister-expresses-sorrow-over-the-death-of-p\
rominent-torah-scholar-amos-hakham/
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
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http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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So now we’re being told that humans and Neanderthals didn’t interbreed:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19250778
http://www.africanews.com/site/New_Kenyan_fossils_find_early_human_evolution/lis\
t_messages/42137
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/08/15/3568306.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9474109/Neanderthals-did-not-int\
erbreed-with-humans-scientists-find.html
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docId=CNG.a04033eb29b72c927ea73687de7fc7a4.7c1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/14/study-doubt-human-neanderthal-inte\
rbreeding?newsfeed=true
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-say-youre-not-the-neanderth\
al-they-used-to-think-8038771.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-08-esearch-modern-humans-neanderthals-interbred.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/uoc-rrd081312.php

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/08/hot-for-hominids-did-humans-ma\
te-with-neanderthals-or-not/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/article-2188341/No-flings-humans--Neanderth\
als.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Then again …

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/08/why-you-shouldnt-publish-in-pnas/
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/08/neanderthal-and-human-matings-g\
et-a-date/
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2012/08/neanderthal-mat\
ing-debated-in-duelling-studies/1

… meanwhile, Otzi seems to be closer genetically to Neanderthals than we
are:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/08/otzi-more-neandertal-than-the-ave\
rage-bear/

More on those recently-found fossils from Kenya:

http://www.africanews.com/site/New_Kenyan_fossils_find_early_human_evolution/lis\
t_messages/42137
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Evidence of climate change at the end of/causing the demise of the Old
Kingdom:

http://phys.org/news/2012-08-climate-drought-lessons-ancient-egypt.html

Interesting finds from the dam-threatened Guvercinkaya tumulus:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/guvercinkaya-excavation-site-sheds-light-on-ana\
tolian-life.aspx?pageID=238&nID=27612&NewsCatID=375

Hype for an upcoming announcement of another Hittite sculpture find at
Tel Tayinat (I think):

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-to-introduce-ancient-statue-.aspx?pageID\
=238&nID=27584&NewsCatID=375


An update on the Jezreel Expedition:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/ebe368017.shtml

Underwater finds from the port of Siraf:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/arts-and-culture/100501-construction-materials-discov\
ered-in-persian-gulf-underwater-archaeological-excavations


We’re starting to get more coverage of damage being done to Syrian sites
(these vary in focus to some extent):

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/08/120817-syria-lebanon-world-archa\
eology-conflict-damage-treasures/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/arts/design/syrian-conflict-imperils-historica\
l-treasures.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-syrias-ancien\
t-treasures-pulverised-8007768.html
http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/what-will-happen-to-syria-s-dead-\
cities-1.1359522#.UCfZQKDCaSo

… and Archaeology Magazine put up an article from a couple of years ago
about the Aleppo Citadel:

http://www.archaeology.org/0911/features/syria_aleppo_temple_storm_god_citadel.h\
tml

OpEd on the Arab Spring and its effect on antiquities:

http://www.meforum.org/3301/islamists-archaeology

Egyptian authorities foiled a smuggling attempt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/50610/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Cairo-\
Airport-Authorities-foil-smuggling-attempt.aspx


Feature on the anniversary of the death of Flinders Petrie:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/paying-homage-to-pioneering-archaeologist-w\
ho-lost-his-head.premium-1.456689

The Onion weighs in on the finding-pyramids-with-Google-Earth thing:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/lost-pyramids-found-on-google-earth,29186/

… and in case you missed the actual news of that:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/14/long-lost-egyptian-pyramids-found-on-g\
oogle-earth/
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/two-pyramids-found-google-earth-113322405.html

More on that so-called ‘Samson seal’:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120813103403.htm
http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=17073
http://phys.org/news/2012-08-ancient-substance-legend-samson.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Roman finds from Devon:

http://phys.org/news/2012-08-archaeological-devon-unearths-roman.html

More finds from Maryport:

http://phys.org/news/2012-08-excavation-roman-life-northern-england.html
http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2012/08/16/61634-316324\
98/
http://www.itv.com/news/border/2012-08-14/maryport-roman-dig-ends/
http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2012/08/13/188-Rare-Roman-altar-found-\
at-Maryport-dig-site.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19224154

The Time Team folks were very impressed with what they found at
Branodunum:

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history%20%26%20heritage/archaeology/art396336


A ‘full’ Roman amphora was ‘rediscovered’ in Velez-Malaga:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_35538.shtml

… and another one was found at Denia:

http://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/costa-blanca-north/item/108666-centuries-old-\
amphora-unearthed-in-denia-port


Very vague item on the find of remains of a Roman bridge at Sostra:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n285202

… and one on the discovery of a Thracian settlement’s remains near Tsarevo:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=142284


A Roman phylactery goes on display:

http://www.thecollectionmuseum.com/?/blog/view/unique-roman-prayer-tablet-goes-o\
n-display

A Roman curse tablet from Kent was unrolled:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19267181

National Geographic has a feature on Roman Walls:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/09/roman-walls/curry-text

Interesting hype for an Athenian Pottery conference:

http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2012/wm-hosts-international-conference-on-ancient\
-athenian-pottery-123.php

… and for an Ancient World in the Movies course:

http://phys.org/news/2012-08-real-reel-ancient-greece-rome.html

Feature on Herod as president of the Olympics:

http://trib.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/king-herod-president-of-the-olympics\
/article_20fe998f-2ad0-50f3-aa5d-5f20ac314243.html

Interview with Graeme Bird on matters Homeric and jazzy:

http://kleos.chs.harvard.edu/?p=492


Mary Beard on Roman ‘outsourcing’:

http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2012/08/modern-tax-farming-and-the-roma\
n-dangers-of-private-enterprise.html
cf:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9745000/9745362.stm

The Journal of Hellenic Studies made a bunch of Olympic-related
articles available for free:

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displaySpecialArticle?jid=JHS&bespokeId=400\
8

What we learn from Greek myths:

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/15/greek-myths-shed-light-on-our-modern-w\
orld/

In case you miss the US-as-Rome things:

http://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/On-our-own-road-to-Rome-3798476.php


Gladiators are returning to Aspendos:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/gladiators-return-to-aspendos-old-stage.aspx?pa\
geID=238&nID=27792&NewsCatID=385

They’re building a major mosaic museum in Sanlurfa:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/new-mosaic-museum-underway.aspx?pageID=238&nid=\
27513&NewsCatID=375

The Riace Bronzes are returning ‘home’ later this year:

http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2012/08/14/Riace-Bronzes-return-\
home-later-year_7342168.html

Feature on the Diolkos:

http://holylandphotos.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/special-diolkos-remains/
Cockermouth Roman Settlement has received some funding:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-19240957
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/lottery-cash-will-fund-major-roman-dig-in-west\
-cumbria-1.984865?referrerPath=news

Review of Anthony Everitt, *Rise of Rome*:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-13/rome-killed-its-sol